"If India has passed legislation to conduct simultaneous polls across the country by Jan 1st 2025, this resolves to yes."

Will you resolve positively if legislation is passed but the system doesn't get put into practice? For example, if subsequently deemed inconstitutional by the courts?

@galaga Yeah, for the purposes of this market, the legislation passing will have it resolve to yes, irrespective of legal challenges/implementation difficulties.

You would need a GST style consensus to make something like this happen, and GST took 10 years

How does it work in the status quo?

@MP elections are staggered over a few weeks. I presume this allows poll workers to rotate between different constituencies, depending on which ones vote on any given day.

Edit: it is worth remembering that India is now the world's biggest country by population; in 2014 there were 834 million registered voters, and 912 million in 2019.

@BrunoParga oh yeah, a professor of my uni went to India in 2019 iirc to be an observer and he said that.

In Brazil we just do the election in one sunday. Volunteering to work in the election is mandatory. Works fine.

I don't think there's that much difference between a 140M people voted last october. I don't think it's that different.

@MP mas olha vejam só, outro BR por aqui

Up until 15-ish years ago India didn't have something like Brazilian RG. Our elections are top-notch, at least in terms of how the process is organized and conducted.

Also they vote in separate constituencies (voto distrital), which lends itself more easily to separate voting days.