The commander in the spotlight was questioned by both the panel and other commanders about the precinct's performance.
All around Sunset Park last week, people were trying to balance what they were learning about the precinct and the grief of a broken family, with their own experiences with the 72nd.
In fact, Schoolcraft's complaints about the precinct and his suspicions about conspiracies and cover-ups have been borne out.
With about half the precincts tallied, Mr. Kagame had 94.3percentt of the vote.
With about half the precincts reporting, the contest for the county's other vacant top law-enforcement post, district attorney, was more decisive.
It includes newly identified "votes" from about one-fifth of the precincts in Miami-Dade County, but only orders the recount of a fraction of ballots identified as undervotes from the other 80percentt of the county.
With about 90 percent of the precincts reporting, Ms. Maloney, 64, had about 81 percent of the vote, while her opponent, Reshma Saujani, 34, a lawyer who has worked with hedge funds, had about 19 percent.
With about 50percentt of the precincts counted, the party announced that Mr. Kerry, of Massachusetts, had about half of the vote, Howard Dean had about a quarter, and Representative Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio had about 15percentt.
PALM BEACH COUNTY -- Teams of counters have tallied about 50percentt of the precincts.
With about 98 percent of the precincts reporting, Mr. Tomblin had won 49 percent of the vote, beating his Republican opponent, Bill Maloney, who had garnered 47 percent.
