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In the pre-election scramble for media oxygen, New Zealand's political parties are dropping policies all over the place.

Germany's 2013 election resultsTHE scramble begins and new political alliances are possible.

As state and local election officials scramble to get enough ballots, workers and equipment to handle the predicted high turnout, many are trying to ease the strain of Election Day by encouraging voters to cast their ballots early.

In the run-up to the election, McDonnell scrambled to distance himself from the thesis.

Just days after raising the possibility of postponing the elections because of a software flaw in the new voting system, election officials scrambled to replace memory cards in more than 76,000 electronic machines nationwide.

SYDNEY, Australia — The two main candidates in Australia's cliffhanger election began scrambling Sunday to win the support of three independent lawmakers and a newly elected Greens party representative who will decide which party forms a minority government in one of the tightest races ever seen here.

The candidates in October's presidential election are scrambling to win their endorsement.Despite his party's traditional links to the Catholic church, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the candidate of the left-wing Workers Party PTPT), is trying to forge an alliance with the centre-right Liberal Party, which includes many evangelicals from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God.

Election officials scrambled to issue paper ballots in some locations, which quickly ran out, according to reports online.

With next month's parliamentary elections already scrambled, Washington must now call for new rules to assure a truly democratic vote.

At a meeting of the bank's shareholders in January, Beppe Grillo, a comedian turned populist political leader whose strong showing in recent elections has scrambled prospects for forming a new government, delivered a tirade about the bank's longtime connections to the Democratic Party, which for decades was the dominant political force in the city.

The frontrunner in the Swedish general election this weekend is scrambling to stop his campaign being damaged after he shooed away a political adversary during a television debate.