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This is on point, I'm Meganet Chakra Bardi, and this week we're doing a bit of elections globetroting on the show.

In the US, of course, we're all focused on the November elections here, but pivotal elections

are happening now elsewhere around the world.

So call it a kind of informal world democracy series on point.

Now yesterday we talked about the far rights gains

in this month's European parliamentary elections.

Later this week, we'll head to Mexico,

which just elected its first female president.

But today, India.

In the colorful, colossal exercise of Indian democracy, all that remains now is the counting. Held during some of the hottest weather India has ever seen, the Commission that

oversaw the six-week vote took what amounted to a bow. We have created a world

record of 642 million proud Indian voters.

That's Rajiv Kumar, Chief Election Commissioner of India speaking there,

and you heard him correctly, a record 642 million voters turned out this year.

That's double the size of the entire United States.

India is the world's largest democracy

with more than 960 million eligible voters in a total population of

some 1.2 billion citizens.

And in this year's parliamentary contest, Prime Minister Norengra Modi predicted his B.J.P. Party would sweep the elections

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