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A Bollywood movie, Newton (available for free to view on Amazon Prime Video), depicts plight of one such fictional instance of vote manipulation in India: https://www.amazon.com/Newton-Rajkummar-Rao/dp/B077MHZYDL

tldr A honest govt officer running a polling booth in an area under Naxal (communist separatists) influence grapples with corruption, deciet, hopelessness, manipulation, and hypocrisy.

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Definitely the best movie I watched in 2018. I think it did a much better job of depicting life in India than any other movie I've ever seen. I recommended it to a couple of European friends who watched it with subs and they enjoyed it too.

Re: Life in India: Found this South Indian movie, Joker, to be quite excellent. https://www.amazon.com/Joker-Guru-Somasundaram/dp/B06XB79BVD

tldr https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_(2016_film)#Plot

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