At press time early this morning, polls indicated that voters had elected Texas Governor and Republican candidate George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United State in one of the narrowest races in the history of the country, although as of 4:30 a.m., Florida votes were in the process of being recounted.

If the final count, including absentee ballots, shows Bush to have prevailed, Florida's 25 electoral voteswould have given Bush at least 271 total electoral votes, one more than the 270 needed to assume the presidency.

Meanwhile, the Republicans kept control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

In the race for the first district of Massachusetts' seat in the House of Representatives, incumbent Democrat John Olver, husband of Professor of Psychology Rose Olver, easily defeated Republican opponent Pete Abair by a margin of nearly three votes to one.

In other Massachusetts elections, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D) received approximately 72 percent of the vote while the Republican challenger Jack E. Robinson III received 13 percent and Libertarian candidate Carla Howell received 12 percent.

Of the eight questions on the Massachusetts state ballot, voters decided to deny prisoners voting privileges, to lower the state income tax to five percent, and to continue greyhound racing. Questions four and six, respectively for the income tax cut and a tax credit for tolls, were the most vigorously opposed by a state organization called the Campaign for Massachusetts' Future. While voters approved the tax cut, they voted against the tax credit for tolls.

In perhaps the highest-profile Senate campaign, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton defeated Rick Lazio by approximately a 10-point margin.