  The properties of the most probable ground state candidate for the XXZ spin
chain with the anisotropy parameter equal to -1/2 and an odd number of sites is
considered. Some linear combinations of the components of the considered state,
divided by the maximal component, coincide with the elementary symmetric
polynomials in the corresponding Bethe roots. It is proved that those
polynomials are equal to the numbers providing the refined enumeration of the
alternating-sign matrices of order M+1 divided by the total number of the
alternating-sign matrices of order M, for the chain of length 2M+1.
