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INDIA EDITION
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Watch: 1,033 candidates in one election: Tamil Nadu’s craziest poll
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Editorial Team
Today, voting in India is simple. You walk into a polling booth, press a button on an Electronic Voting Machine, and your vote is cast in seconds. But in 1996, voters in one constituency in Tamil Nadu faced a very different situation. They had to search through a booklet running into more than 60 pages just to find the candidate they wanted to vote for. Because, that election had 1,033 candidates.
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