"If the difference is only 3 million, I will bedisappointed," he said.

Marcos' running mate, Arturo Tolentino, is amember of Parliament, a former senator and foreignminister.

Aquino said she would need 65 percent tocompensate for the fraud and cheating she expectedfrom Marcos' people.

Joe Concepcion, chairman of NAMFREL, a500,000-member citizens' volunteer pollwatchinggroup, said in an interview there was "not muchrampant cheating," but said many voters wereconfused in some areas because they could not findtheir names on posted lists and some pollingstations didn't open on time.

Aquino headquarters charged some of hersupporters were unfairly subjected to "citizen'sarrests," and accused of voting in severalprecincts.

In Danao City, reporters said NAMFRELvolunteers abandoned their posts because they saidthey were being harassed.

Bishop Antonio Fortich, national vice chairmanof NAMFREL, said a nine-member observer bodyappointed by Marcos unexpectedly issued an orderthat Fortich's group had to wear all-whiteclothing.

"Now they'll have the game all to themselves,"he said, indicating the order was a form ofharassment to interfere with the observers' task.

A 20-member American observer team led by Sen.Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), chairman of the SenateForeign Relations Committee, came here at Marcos'invitation. But there are thousands of votingstations in this nation of islands.

Marcos' wife, Imelda, voted at a high schooltwo blocks from Malacanang Palace, which wasguarded by hundreds of soldiers and riot police.National television gave the event full coverage,showing election workers stamping indelible ink onher hand, a method to ensure people vote onlyonce.

Cardinal Jaime L. Sin, spiritual leader of thedominant Roman Catholic community, urged people toavoid violence. "One little incident, one singlespark could ignite a raging fire," he said.

Aquino issued an election eve statement in theform of a prayer: "Deliver us from this evil, thiscrisis which 20 years of evil rule has broughtus." She holds Marcos responsible for the death ofher husband, Benigno Aquino, who was a visitingprofessor at Harvard before being assassinatedupon his return to his homeland.

Marcos said the election was "not a battlebetween good and evil," but charged Mrs. Aquinowould lead the country toward communism.

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