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More than 40 percent of the people voted in the elections in Kashmir.
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Edmund Roy, reporter for the Australian Broadasting Corporation
Noah talks with Edmund Roy, an India-based reporter for the Australian Broadasting Corporation, about yesterday's elections in the state of Kashmir. Government troops forced citizens to vote, herding them to polling stations, threatening them if they didn't participate. Exit polls show more than 40 percent of the people voted, but Roy says the day's events call into question the notion of free and fair elections in democratic India.
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