11.   Early voting began in Belarus on Tuesday ahead of the weekend presidential ballot pitting President Alexander Lukashenko against an opposition candidate who stands little chance of winning.

12.   Early voting began Tuesday for people who cannot vote Sunday.

13.   Gunmen shot dead a communist supporter inside a polling booth soon after voting began in the eastern state of Bihar.

14.   In the two northeastern states, voting began briskly despite the boycott call.

15.   Meanwhile, voting began Thursday in nine border posts across Turkey, where poll stations were set up for Turks living abroad.

16.   Opinion polls before voting began Saturday suggested there was no clear frontrunner and that a coalition government was the likeliest outcome.

17.   Outside of the capital, voting began Saturday and will last up to two weeks to allow people in remote villages to get to polling centers.

18.   Political rivals attacked each other with knives Monday at two places in the western Indian state of Gujarat where voting began to elect a new legislature.

19.   There was no sign of violence as voting began Sunday in disputed elections in northern Ivory Coast where the main opposition group is boycotting the ballot.

20.   They will be barred only if they are convicted before voting begins.