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booth capturing
by deepak singh on May 20, 2008 10:14 AM

I remember at age of 11 years,almost 20 years ago,one of my school classmate gave 25 votes in one go and polling agent standing next to him.That was in some remote village in Bihar.That was a moment of pride for my young friend,not realising that we were not even qualified to cast the vote.This has been the way of polling for many decades..be it Bihar,WB,UP..or almost all rural belt across India..primarily voting seems to be done by systematic booth capturing,done by whoever is the dominant community in that region.EC can do very little to stop this unless people dont understand the value of their voting power. about it becasue

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