Despite dip in election trust, Indians trek miles to cast their ballots
Mohammad Rafiq Sheikh took his time casting his ballot this morning in the northern Indian town of Ramban.
After pressing the button for his party on the electronic voting machine (EVM), he carefully waited to hear the machine’s beep tone, and then to see the correct party symbol appear on screen, before leaving the government school-turned-polling station.
“I don’t want to waste my vote,” says Mr. Sheikh, waiting for his 10 family members to file out of the building. “Even one vote can decide a winner.”
They are some of the first people to vote in India’s massive, high-stakes election. Nearly a billion voters are expected to
