1.   Besides raising ethical questions about relying so heavily on a single donor, the contribution was never registered with electoral officials even though disclosure is required by law.

2.   Electoral officials, who had been counting the ballots inside, fled from the station while the attackers chased them with nail-studded clubs, witnesses said.

3.   Gbagbo reacted furiously to the announcement, which had been read out by a mid-ranking electoral official at a hastily called news conference at the Interior Ministry.

4.   More than two-thirds of the polling places opened at least an hour late Sunday morning while electoral officials were delayed in setting them up.

5.   Rafsanjani had hinted that vote-rigging by the electoral officials would make it difficult for Khatami to win despite his universal appeal.

6.   Shortly afterward, at the Interior Ministry, a mid-ranking electoral official, Daniel Bamba Cheik, said that the commission had been dissolved.

7.   Other electoral officials disagreed.

8.   Perplexed electoral officials looked on.

9.   Parliamentary elections in Belarus cleared the minimum voter turnout Sunday despite an opposition boycott, and electoral officials said the vote would likely be declared valid.

10.   PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Electoral officials boast that nearly every potential voter is rushing to register for upcoming elections.