By Samantha Clark, KQED News Fix
Monday, India wrapped up six weeks of voting in its parliamentary elections. Some 551 million people — 66.4 percent of the more than 800 million eligible voters — went to the polls to choose 543 members of India’s lower house of Parliament. It has been been described as the largest democratic election in history.
Here in the Bay Area, a large number of Indian expatriates are avidly following the results, which are expected to be announced on or by Friday, May 16.
And many are doing more than watching. Last Friday night, teams of Indian expatriates in San Francisco, Fremont and Sunnyvale worked all night calling voters halfway across the world to urge them to vote for the Aam Aadmi Party.
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