More than 5 million govt servants, worked day and night, to operate 1.1 million polling booths so that an Indian does not have to cross more than 3 square kms to vote, but our Gora Sahab still thinks American system is better.

For them, anything Indian, is bad.
Americans mail their ballots to people so that they can vote.

Indians take the polling Booth to them. Even if it is one voter in the remote hills of Arunachal Pradesh.

But USA is better and India is sad.
As a part of NSS, I had the privilege to be involved in election duty. I have seen democracy in action, in one of the most politically volatile states in India.

The process' are so good, that it is extremely difficult to tamper with them.

Get out sometimes, you will know.
700 million people vote in India. That is twice the population of the United States.

Yet time after time, the elections go on peacefully, without violence and happen like clockwork.

And the entire results process happens in one day.

Yet somehow USA is more efficient.

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