1.   Although the ballots are secret, the vote tally of individual communities is not.

2.   An official vote tally is expected in a few weeks.

3.   And a key aide later cautioned that Wilson was speaking as much to the merits of the issue as to the vote tally.

4.   As the vote tally clicked past midnight, Philadelphia came closer to ending a half-century of Democratic rule in City Hall.

5.   As the vote tally mounted and it became apparent that he would lose, Gingrich stood in the well of the House with an ashen look.

6.   Bosnian Serb officials objected to including the bags of ballots cast by refugees abroad in the local vote tallies.

7.   - Also pending in Florida were suits filed by the Bush campaign in several counties alleging that overseas military ballots were wrongly excluded from vote tallies.

8.   A petition for a recount must be filed within three business days after the certified vote tallies are filed.

9.   After all, these are people whose careers depend on vote tallies.

10.   Allen was elected by the same vote tally as speaker pro tempore, the legislator responsible for running the Assembly floor sessions.