A general election runoff, which then had no precedent but was later adopted in Georgia, could lead to another deadlock because of the write-ins, Bolton reasoned.
Election workers started tacking up results on Monday from Congo's presidential election runoff, as violence continued to flare across the country.
The OSCE had sent 60 observers to monitor the election runoffs.
Tower won the seat in the special election runoff with 448,217 votes (50.6 percent) to Blakely's 437,872 (49.4 percent), a margin of 10,343.
In 1995, Blair once more attempted to regain the Senate seat but failed to make the general election runoff in a field of seven candidates.
In general, the campaign for the primary election runoff was fairly negative.
Neugebauer was elected to Congress after a hotly contested special election runoff in the spring of 2003.
Texas's 22nd congressional district, 1976 (special election runoff):
The attack was part of the Taliban's plans to disrupt the Presidential election runoff.
ECOWAS also said the election runoff should go ahead.