What incentivizes the Indian poll worker? One can envision this labour market of poll workers turning into a buyer’s market. So what dominated the incentivizing of the Indian poll worker in the 2019 elections — cash, ideology or votes? Understanding the phenomenon by correlating efforts of poll workers with election outcomes may also be naïve. It is thus important to critically analyse the incentives of poll workers.

Source: The Telegraph May 17, 2019 10:18 UTC