evidence: Over 15 years ago, India shifted from paper ballots to electronic voting machines (EVMs) for all national and regional elections. However, just a few weeks ahead of this year’s Lok Sabha polls, the election commission of India (ECI) came close to returning to paper and stamps in one small constituency. The ECI was faced with a peculiar problem in Nizamabad in south India’s Telangana: A whopping 185 candidates filed nominations. Since an EVM can accommodate only 64 candidates, it was a tough call on how to carry out voting smoothly. [...] These 12 EVMs will be laid out in an L-shaped format inside every polling station and each machine will have a maximum of 16 candidates listed.