how election commission helps to maintain the soul of democracy
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About 814.5 million eligible voters, 930,000 polling booths and over 11 million officials and security personnel is what it took to conduct the General Assembly elections of India 2014, an event clearly touted as the biggest humanly managed event (elections) in the history of the world.
In the last general elections, India added about 23 million, (nearly 3% of all the voters) aged between 18-19 years to its voter lists, a number more than the combined populations of Switzerland and Belgium. The same polls also documented a record breaking voter turnaround of over 66 percent.
In a nutshell, India takes pride in conducting the largest elections ever and continues to be a vibrant democracy cutting across all barriers and diversities. However, what about the agency that single-handedly pulls off polls of such enormous size, scale and magnitude? We take a look at some of the salient features of the Election Commission of India (ECI) that manages it all.