election day!

Tomorrow is election day here in Delhi. Elections are completely different here from back home. They take about a month with each city or region having their own election day and Thursday is Delhi. They swear that they don't count any votes until the end of that month. I can't help but wonder if that is true. I don't know why it is done this way. Maybe just tradition, or maybe it is the logistics of it. I think that the voting is done very old school with no computers or anything, just written ballots, and security is a huge concern.
See politics here is very corrupt, not like the occasional bribe or something like that, but lots of people pretty much buy their way to power. Newsweek had a great article about the corruption a few months ago actually:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/188166
So, on election day there is (apparently) a huge effort at the polls to keep the people away who will bribe you to vote one way or the other (although the police are pretty corrupt too, so who knows how well that works). About half of the staff are taking they day off because if you live outside of Delhi it can be difficult to get in with the police blocking the roads. I will be working; we are taking advantage of the staff being out to have a long planning meeting all day and it will probably actually be one of the safest days in Delhi.
The thing I find odd is that even though people are taking time off "to vote", I don't think that any of them actually are going to vote. I have heard no one in the office talk about the election other than asking if we would close the office for a 'holiday'. I find that very odd. I mean just imagine not hearing anyone discuss the presidential election. I mean it is good to keep politics out of the office but I honestly don't think that even one person in this office is voting.
All I know is that one party that is running (you elect a party and then they chose the prime minister/president) whose entire platform seems to be anti-anything that isn't "real India", meaning Hindu. I really hope they don't win because muslims are treated badly enough in this country without the government getting involved, not to mention that they are also anti-christian and anti-foreigners so here's hoping they don't win.
But it will be a few more weeks before I find out. Stay tuned for updates!
And an aside for the day: the heat has broken! Tomorrow the high is only supposed to be 37 which is under 100! That will be the first day under 100 in over 2 weeks. That is just one day but it is hovering now around 102-104 every day which, trust me, I can deal with.