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Because of lingering bitterness over the negotiations, ratification of the proposed contract -- ballots have been returned by mail and are to be counted today -- is by no means assured, union officials said.

The latest blow came yesterday, when two top officials resigned amid allegations that ballot fraud had tainted the contract vote in 1996.

Union officials, who announced a tentative settlement on June 10 with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, said more than 94percentt of 81,748 votes were cast in favor of the contract in a ballot completed yesterday.

A rail union will ballot contract staff at Heathrow Express for strike action in a dispute over pay and bonuses for working during the Olympic Games.

The company said it offered to provide personnel to help oversee the primary and runoff to ensure the counting went smoothly, and also offered several alternatives for the city to acquire the new, high-speed ballot counters — either for about $1.6 million, or at no cost if the city agreed to extend the company's contract to print paper ballots.

The bureau did not have the contract to print the ballots.

All its members resigned when they were found to have taken bribes on a contract to print the ballot slips.

But Mrs. Welsh and her allies in the Alliance of Concerned Citizens of Novato helped circulate a petition to have the contract put on the ballot next June.