Local Issues Dominate as India Votes

就好比足球联赛和篮球联赛在中国不行一样（可能是和美国一比），民主在印度同样很纠结。

其实我们应该关注的不是民主与否，而是如何能够制度上保证制约官的力量。

Nearby, in a middle class precinct, Uma Shekar, 40, who works at a software consulting firm, said he was fed up with corruption. He said his family had traditionally voted for Congress, but frustrated, had turned to other parties in recent years as well. “Nothing is working,” he rued.

His father, Dasaratha Rama Iyer, 78, held himself aloft on his cane, said he kept comingto vote for a higher cause. “God has allowed me to live to see that democracy is notdemolished,” he said. “Indians should prove we can rule ourselves.”