Economic crisis means no money for elections?

Everything here is from Megan McArdle:

• Icelanders turn from finance to fishing
• Grain piles up in ports as buyers can't get letters of credit
• Watching crime for signs of an upsurge
• Currency market goes crazy
• An interactive map of US financial troubles
• Ukraine wonders if it can afford an election
• GM now worth less than it was in 1929.