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this is CBS I and the world. I'm John Bachelor. Democracy said to be concerning, not in India.

The vote is underway and I welcome Saddam

Dume of the American Enterprise Institute writing most recently in his column at

the Wall Street Journal editorial page about the voting in India and also about the

success of Norengra Modi and the B. J.P. to solve corruption, to make corruption

not be the lead headline? Well in any

event some details. SOTNana a very good evening to you you tell me the

voting is underway and it takes seven weeks. Why does it take so long and how is it done? Good evening to you.

Very good evening John. Yes the voting is indeed underway. Two phases are over. There are another

five to go. It, I think six to go.

The reason it takes so long is that there's so many voters.

I mean, you have to see that India has more than 950 million registered

borders. The next largest electorate in the world, which is the US, I think in the

last election, had about 150 million voters. So because the electorate is so

large and the paraphernalia around it that the Indians use is so complicated,

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