1.   Foreign observers, meanwhile, are likely to account for only a small percentage of the poll monitors, Garcia said.

2.   Among reported election problems was an incident in Yerevan in which more than two dozen men allegedly stuffed a ballot box and threatened a poll monitor with a gun.

3.   Hundreds of poll monitors and other U.N. officials will also be sent in.

4.   Human rights groups and private poll monitors criticized the lack of democracy in the tightly controlled voting system, which they said allowed irregularities and voter intimidation.

5.   Hundreds of poll monitors and other U.N. officials also will be sent in.

6.   In a statement Sunday night, opposition officials said attacks on poll monitors and supporters continued Sunday throughout the country.

7.   Independent poll monitors and European Union observers said the action had disenfranchised the Tamil voters.

8.   Independent poll monitors said the violence appeared to taper off in the final week of campaigning.

9.   Soldiers played a part, poll monitors and some candidates said.

10.   The commission said it was delaying counting in four districts after poll monitors asked for an annulment in some areas due to fraud and violence.