Buying votes

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India’s enforcement agencies have so far seized cash, liquor, drugs, gold and other contraband worth 25 billion rupees ($361 million) as the country’s polling gets underway, already double the value of goods seized in the entire 2014 elections.

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More:  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-15/cash-booze-and-gold-india-seizures-surge-compared-to-2014-vote

I find it interesting that they feel the need to pay off lots of individual voters instead of paying off a few of the folks in the chain of custody who handle the votes to lose some boxes of (real) votes and replace them with boxes of fraudulent votes.

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In India, the voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) system was introduced in 8 of 543 parliamentary constituencies as a pilot project in Indian general election, 2014.[6][7][8][9] VVPAT was implemented in Lucknow, Gandhinagar, Bangalore South, Chennai Central, Jadavpur, Raipur, Patna Sahib and Mizoram constituencies.[10][11][12][13][14][15] Voter-verified paper audit trail was first used in an election in India in September 2013 in Noksen (Assembly Constituency) in Nagaland.[16][17] VVPAT along with EVMs was used on a large-scale for the first time in India,[18] in 10 assembly seats out of 40 in Mizoram Legislative Assembly election, 2013.[19] VVPAT -fitted EVMs was used in entire Goa state in the 2017 assembly elections, which was the first time that an entire state in India saw the implementation of VVPAT.[20][21] voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) system which enables electronic voting machines to record each vote cast by generating the EVM slip, will be introduced in all 543 Lok sabha constituencies in 2019 Indian general election.[22][23]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter-verified_paper_audit_trail

Now we see what happens when parties can't fuck around with the chain of custody.