Monday, April 8, 2019

The world’s biggest democracy will this week begin the 40-day process of choosing a new government in which an eighth of the world’s population will have the vote

Consider what is involved: more than one-eighth of humanity will have the opportunity to vote in April and May. Those voters will speak 22 official languages and thousands of dialects. Tens of millions will never have learned to read. They will vote from the shadow of the Himalayas right down to the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago; in tribal communities without running water or electricity; in Delhi’s genteel southern neighbourhoods and in the teeming slums of Mumbai.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2TYDIi5

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