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c) Vote-purchasing - Votes or voters are also purchased. The poor and illiterate people do not know the value of their votes. They sell their votes for satisfying their needs. The rich persons give them some money, blankets, cloths, bottles of wine and make them ready to vote in their favour. Even the M.L.A. and M.P. sell themselves for certain amount of money or some posts while the government is formed. The different parties desirous to form the government purchase them in order to prove their majority
d) Bungling by Election Officers - Some times election officers are also influenced by caste and creed. They favour the candidate of their own caste and creed. They are even bribed by the candidate and they allow him to do whatever right or wrong he wants to do in his own favour. In this way undeserving candidate collect more votes than the deserving candidate and is declared victorious.
e) Booth Capturing - This is the most harmful and humiliating way of election. The booth-capturing is done by using guns and pistols. The rich candidates take help from criminals by paying them a lot of money. The criminals capture all plain votes and put them in their boxes. This wrong way of getting votes not only damage the present election system but also establishes the foundation of futurecrimes of different types. Because the candidates elected by the help of criminal persons also help criminals to be free from the punishment declared for their criminal activities. In this way leaders of nation who are expected to prevent the crimes happening in the society, support the criminals and crimes.
f) Only-Right - The democracy stands strongly on its two legs Right and Duty. It runs properly when its two legs-Right and Duty are treated equally by the public of democratic nation. Right and Duty are interdependent. They are supplementaries of each other. It has been also asserted that the right originates from Duty. So where there is no duty, there is no Right.
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