India to begin voting in election in April, says electoral commission
2019-03-11 10:15:03 source：The Guardian
March 10, 2019
Voting in the world’s largest democratic contest will begin on 11 April and continue for the next six weeks, India’s electoral commission has said in an announcement that signals the formal start of campaigning.
Polling booths will be shuttled around the country – by camel across the Rajasthan desert, on foot in the Himalayas and by speedboat in the Andaman Islands – for an election held in seven phases ending on 19 May. The ballots of up to 900 million eligible voters will be counted four days later.
Conducting India’s massive election is made more difficult by a law demanding that no voter need travel further than two kilometres to find a polling place, as well as the need to deploy federal police to secure the ballots, with local law enforcement regarded as easier to compromise.
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