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How India runs the world's biggest election - The Global Story podcast, BBC World Service

India will host the world's biggest election this year when nearly one billion people will vote. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM Organisers have vowed to set up polling stations within 2km of every citizen, but India's vast size means this will be a challenge. The country's 15 million election officials must travel to coastal towns, mountain villages, remote islands and dense jungles to reach every voter. Katya Adler speaks with BBC journalist and presenter Devina Gupta and India correspondent Soutik Biswas to break down the big numbers and discuss how it is possible to organise an election on this scale. 00:06 Introduction 01:45 Nearly a billion voters 03:06 Remote voters 04:41 Staffing the election 05:11 Where most voters are 05:55 First-time voters 06:06 Women voters 06:37 Length of election 07:01 Cost of elections 07:33 Who pays for elections? 09:10 Free and fair? Watch more episodes of The Global Story here 👉🏽    • The Global Story   You can listen to more episodes of The Global Story here. Making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, Monday to Friday, from the BBC 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13x... ---------------- This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. If you like what we do, you can also find us here: Instagram 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   Twitter 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   Facebook 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   BBC World Service website 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Thanks for watching and subscribing! #BBCWorldService #WorldService #india