印度有近10亿民众被要求提供相关证明文件以保留投票权。此举旨在清理选民名单中的重复登记及错误信息，但批评者指出这损害了全球最大民主国家的根基，尤其导致穆斯林群体丧失选举权。
Nearly a billion people in India are being asked to show documents to prove that they should keep the right to vote. The exercise aims to clean India’s voter roll of duplicates and discrepancies, but critics say it undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims.
在印度教民族主义政府执政下，这一举措引发了民众日益强烈的不满情绪。
Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.