1.   Both parties quickly recognized the importance to Bush of the uncounted overseas ballots, especially those from military installations.

2.   Across the country, the punch card systems have resulted in significantly higher numbers of uncounted ballots.

3.   After weeks of negotiations, the organized effort by news organizations to examine uncounted Florida ballots has resulted in two independent projects.

4.   No one, for example, knows whether there are sufficient Gore votes in the uncounted ballots in Miami-Dade or other counties to put the Democrat ahead.

5.   Now, largely unnoticed, uncounted ballots are being tallied, and the nomination appeared late Tuesday to be moving toward the white candidate.

6.   Some refused to separate the uncounted ballots.

7.   The Hoffa campaign filed a protest Wednesday, asserting that Ms. Quindel broke the rules by leaving some uncounted ballots unsealed overnight.

8.   The Gore lawyer also said that if Gore lost in the Supreme Court, the Gore legal team would not request its own review of the uncounted ballots.

9.   The race was so close that it is possible to get different results simply by applying different hypothetical vote-counting methods to the thousands of uncounted ballots.

10.   The uncounted ballots are one result of the huge number of requests this year to vote by mail.