A preliminary count shows 170 signatures of deputies supporting the bill.

"Judging by the preliminary count, I estimate five to seven days before they're down to a force we can defeat in pitched battle."

Based on the preliminary count, the proration factor would be approximately 47.3 percent.

Officials said preliminary counts suggested roughly 200 people may have died.

And preliminary counts show that 330 such cases were filed in 1987.

The preliminary count in the 1990 census put the county's population at nearly 74,000.

The city said that 44,500 new jobs were added, an upward revision of 7,500 from its preliminary count.

A preliminary count was done by local electoral officials after the polls closed Saturday evening.

The figure, based on a preliminary count, was 1.6 percent higher than last year's and was the sixth consecutive increase.

"We're still getting a preliminary count on their transit signatures, but there are a lot of them."