But the American official, who spoke anonymously as ground rules for a briefing with more than a dozen reporters Monday at the United States Embassy here, said Mr. Maliki played down any worries about violence, though he and other Iraqi officials expressed "concerns about the tabulations process and how it's being carried out".
The St. Lucie County Canvassing Board voted 2 to 1 late Friday to order the recount after Representative Allen B. West, a Republican, complained about a series of tabulation errors.
Several counties rejected election protests on Friday, including Durham County, where Republicans had called into question the tabulation of about 90,000 ballots on election night, local media reported.
This change in the counting will reduce the official tabulation of nuclear weapons by about 250 warheads without actually eliminating a single weapon.
Voting over the Internet would be convenient and allow fast tabulation, but it raised questions about fairness, given that lower-income people were less likely to have access to a computer, Mr. Schumer said.
For the formation of CuCl(aq) the same tabulation gives an entropic contribution to log K of about +6.2.
If a poll is done properly, its measure of opinion about the candidates should be similar to the tabulation of votes on caucus night.
Serious inconsistencies in voting or tabulation could spark violence and raise doubts about the government's legitimacy.
Ridge aides say that, according to the department's tabulation, state and local governments had received about $900 million in counterterrorism federal assistance since Sept. 11, most of it from programs that existed before the attacks.
Mr. Spargo had been testifying about problems he had seen in the county's tabulation of votes and was surprised by Democratic lawyers' showing a photograph of him clapping and chanting with other Republican supporters.
