<p><img src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ngwCqP.4Nx5bENKOiHbwwg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD02OTk-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cnn_articles_875/ec9ad9aed24a8b634346beae572793ad?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg" alt="" original-src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ngwCqP.4Nx5bENKOiHbwwg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD02OTk-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cnn_articles_875/ec9ad9aed24a8b634346beae572793ad"/></p>
<p>像鲁比·维尔玛（中）这样的公务员正在急忙核实印度庞大的选民数据库 - Esha Mitra/CNN</p>
<p>一项庞大的任务正在进行中，以更新世界上最长的选民名单。这是印度，几乎有十亿人的信息需要在他们被允许参与世界上最大的民主之前进行核实。</p>
<p>在全国范围内，成千上万的公务员正在手动将选民信息输入数据库。而截止日期是印度人口最多的北方邦的新年前夜。</p>
<p>最后一份名单是 2003 年的，官方表示需要清理，以反映从乡村到城市的大规模迁移、去世选民的积累，以及删除非法在名单上的人。</p>
<p>自 11 月初以来，12 个州和联邦领地——大约有 5 亿人居住在这里——一直在进行更新，审核哪些选民可以参加下次投票。</p>
<p>学校教师普雷姆·拉塔是超过 50 万名被调入更新印度庞大选民名单的政府员工之一。自 11 月初以来，她每天早上五点起床，工作时间常常拖到深夜。为了这项工作，她和其他投票站工作人员每月额外获得 1000 卢比（约 11 美元）的报酬。</p>
<p>“压力很大……时间不够，” 她在新德里郊外的学校告诉 CNN，现在这里成了她的办公室。</p>
<p>“我们整天都在做这个，甚至到晚上 12 点或 1 点，所以当然会有压力，我的身体也很痛。毕竟这是一个人的身体，而不是机器。”</p>
<p><img src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/B1w9xWyLcO1WAYAGgEQKnA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD02OTk-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cnn_articles_875/c7530f8301318edba3590174e4e5a428?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg" alt="" original-src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/B1w9xWyLcO1WAYAGgEQKnA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD02OTk-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cnn_articles_875/c7530f8301318edba3590174e4e5a428"/></p>
<p>学校教师普雷姆·拉塔是超过 50 万名被调入更新印度庞大选民名单的政府员工之一。 - Esha Mitra/CNN</p>
<p>这一困境并没有因为印度复杂的官僚体系而得到缓解。</p>
<p>自 2003 年以来，无数人为了新工作迁移了数百英里。许多女性结婚后改用丈夫的姓氏。而且，许多特别是贫困人群的人对注册过程缺乏了解，也没有 12 种被接受的政府签发的文件之一来进行核实。</p>
<p>在印度喧闹而紧张的政治体系中，修改选民名单会引起巨大的关注，甚至诉讼。</p>
<p>批评执政的印度教民族主义政府的人表示，它正在利用这一活动排除少数群体，政府对此予以否认。</p>
<p>反对党声称他们的地方议员被错误地宣布为死亡。数十起法律案件已针对投票站工作人员因涉嫌失职而提起，根据提交给国会的数据，甚至有超过十起选举工作人员在压力下自杀的案件。</p>
<h3>‘无法追踪’</h3>
<p>在诺伊达的一所学校，拉塔和其他七名投票站工作人员正在打电话，追踪名单上的最后几个姓氏。她的学生们坐在阳光下，在笔记本上涂色——在上课，但实际上是在放假。</p>
<p>“把你的详细信息发给我 WhatsApp；否则，你的名字会被删除，” 拉塔对尚未提交所需表格的人说。“今天是最后一天，之后别问我为什么被取消。”</p>
<p>拉塔被分配了 945 名选民进行核实，到目前为止她已经完成了 600 名。“剩下的中，有些人已经搬走，有些人已经去世，还有一些人无法追踪，” 她告诉 CNN。</p>
<p>除了迟到，其他人根本不相信他们需要配合，另一名投票站工作人员鲁比·维尔玛说。</p>
<p>“人们说我已经注册为选民了，为什么还需要这些详细信息，他们不理解核实的概念，” 她补充道。“这是一个无回报的过程。”</p>
<p><img src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/3MLC9F0IYueKYE.tWYaVrw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD02OTk-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cnn_articles_875/112d064d60422fd8e33b4e73e20ee75e?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg" alt="" original-src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/3MLC9F0IYueKYE.tWYaVrw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD02OTk-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cnn_articles_875/112d064d60422fd8e33b4e73e20ee75e"/></p>
<p>诺伊达的一所学校的学生们坐在阳光下，在笔记本上涂色，而他们的老师正在更新选民名单。 - Esha Mitra/CNN</p>
<p>自 1947 年独立以来，印度已八次修订国家选民名单，成为世界上最大的民主国家。</p>
<p>上一次修订是在 2003 年，当时全国选民大约为 6 亿人，整个过程持续了 6 个月。</p>
<p>这一次，官方只给投票站工作人员一个月的时间来核实大约 5 亿名选民，覆盖 12 个州和联邦领地。这个截止日期已被大多数州延长了两次，而在印度人口最多的北方邦，官员们像拉塔一样，努力寻找一些选民，且人们也在努力寻找所需的文件，截止日期已延长了四次。</p>
<p>吉塔·拉娜（40 岁）就是其中之一。自上次更新名单以来，她已经搬家并改用了丈夫的姓氏。她的父母也去世了，她不知道他们之前投票的选区，这是核实她作为合法选民所需的细节。</p>
<p>“我女儿 19 岁，所以她今年要注册投票，” 拉娜告诉 CNN。“但她的投票将与我的关联，如果我的投票没有得到核实，那么失去的就不仅是我的投票，还有她的。”</p>
<p><img src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/VPEjCS7QQANB8FWxivlw1g--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD02OTk-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cnn_articles_875/bf0bad614fe9cf7a91e661e963ce20d2?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg" alt="" original-src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/VPEjCS7QQANB8FWxivlw1g--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD02OTk-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cnn_articles_875/bf0bad614fe9cf7a91e661e963ce20d2"/></p>
<p>吉塔·拉娜（右）与女儿一起努力确保她的选民身份得到注册。 - Esha Mitra/CNN</p>
<p>这是 Lata 所在学校的一个普遍难题。许多试图验证投票权的都是来自外州的移民工人，这使得追踪文件和家长的详细信息变得更加复杂。</p>
<h3>数百万名字被删除</h3>
<p>政府的批评者表示，它正在利用这一举措从选民名单中删除对其对手的支持者。</p>
<p>在西孟加拉邦，另一个目前正在验证选民名单的州，根据 12 月 16 日发布的草案，超过 580 万人已被删除。</p>
<p>根据该党称，其中近一半的名字已故，包括至少一名全印度特兰穆尔大会的议员，该党是莫迪最大的对手之一，目前在该州执政。</p>
<p>同样，根据本月早些时候发布的草案，泰米尔纳德邦、中央邦和古吉拉特邦等州的选民名单中也删除了数百万个名字。</p>
<p>其他反对党和活动人士指出，官员要求选民提交的文件，而不是现有的选民身份证，通常是用于证明公民身份的文件。</p>
<p>印度内政部长阿米特·沙阿为这一过程辩护。他最近在议会中表示，选民名单的修订 “无非是对合法选民的验证”。</p>
<p>“一个人是否应该能够在多个地方投票，死去的人是否应该被列入选民名单？”</p>
<p>在 Lata 的家乡北方邦，已对被征召更新选民名单的工作人员提出多起警方投诉，指控其 “违反公务”。</p>
<p>“我已经当了二十年的老师，所以在这些年之后我可能会失去工作的想法当然是令人害怕的。但我们正在全力以赴完成这项任务，因为我们也不希望人们失去投票权，” Lata 说。</p>
<p>随着压力水平上升和截止日期临近，Lata 和她的同事们充分利用轻松的时刻。</p>
<p>比如两个邻居都叫 Suraj Chauhan，他们的父母也有相似的名字。或者在八个不同社区中，八个不同的人似乎都有同一个父亲。</p>
<p>“感觉这不会结束，” Lata 说。“这太无情了，我们仍然没有匹配所有选民，所以如果他们延长截止日期那就太好了——否则我们只能提交我们所拥有的。”</p>
<p>其他印度各州何时会经历同样的过程尚未最终确定，但当局希望在 2029 年计划的下一次大选之前完成。</p>
<p>但即使她所在的州提交了新的选民名单，Lata 的工作也不会结束。</p>
<p>“一旦完成这项工作，我们还必须开始注册新选民，” 她说。“然后选举就要来了，当然我们还得回到我们被支付的实际工作上：教孩子们。”</p>
<p><em>本文已更新，以反映北方邦截止日期的延长。</em></p>
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<p>印度正在进行一项庞大的任务，以更新其选民名单，涉及近十亿人。公务员正在手动核实选民信息，截止日期为新年前夜，适用于北方邦。该名单最后一次更新是在 2003 年，由于迁移、去世的选民和非法登记，需要进行修订。超过 50 万名政府员工参与其中，面临压力和紧张。批评者声称这一过程可能会排除少数群体，但政府对此予以否认。该任务因官僚主义和选民意识不足而变得复杂</p>

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<p>Cival servants like Ruby Verma (centre) are rushing to verify India's enormous voter database - Esha Mitra/CNN</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>像鲁比·维尔玛（中）这样的公务员正在急忙核实印度庞大的选民数据库 - Esha Mitra/CNN</p>
</div><p>A gargantuan task is underway to update the longest voter list in the world. This is India, and that’s nearly a billion people whose details need to be verified before they’re allowed to participate in the world’s largest democracy.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>一项庞大的任务正在进行中，以更新世界上最长的选民名单。这是印度，几乎有十亿人的信息需要在他们被允许参与世界上最大的民主之前进行核实。</p>
</div><p>Across the country, tens of thousands of civil servants are rushing to input voter details into a database, by hand. And the deadline is New Year’s Eve for India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>在全国范围内，成千上万的公务员正在手动将选民信息输入数据库。而截止日期是印度人口最多的北方邦的新年前夜。</p>
</div><p>The last list dates from 2003 and authorities say it needs cleaning up to reflect mass migration from the countryside to the cities, the accumulation of deceased voters and to remove those on the list illegally.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>最后一份名单是 2003 年的，官方表示需要清理，以反映从乡村到城市的大规模迁移、去世选民的积累，以及删除非法在名单上的人。</p>
</div><p>Twelve states and union territories –– home to some 500 million people –– have been making updates since early November, vetting which voters can participate in the next polls.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>自 11 月初以来，12 个州和联邦领地——大约有 5 亿人居住在这里——一直在进行更新，审核哪些选民可以参加下次投票。</p>
</div><p>Schoolteacher Prem Lata is one of the over 500,000 government employees that have been pulled into the undertaking. Since early November she has been waking up at five in the morning, with her shifts often dragging late into the night. For this work, she and other Booth Level Officers, are paid an extra 1,000 rupees ($11) per month.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>学校教师普雷姆·拉塔是超过 50 万名被调入更新印度庞大选民名单的政府员工之一。自 11 月初以来，她每天早上五点起床，工作时间常常拖到深夜。为了这项工作，她和其他投票站工作人员每月额外获得 1000 卢比（约 11 美元）的报酬。</p>
</div><p>“There’s a lot of stress and pressure… and not enough time,” she told CNN at her school outside the capital New Delhi that now is her office.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“压力很大……时间不够，” 她在新德里郊外的学校告诉 CNN，现在这里成了她的办公室。</p>
</div><p>“We spend all day doing this, and even until 12 or 1 am in the night so of course there’s stress, and my body hurts. It’s a human body after all, not a machine.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“我们整天都在做这个，甚至到晚上 12 点或 1 点，所以当然会有压力，我的身体也很痛。毕竟这是一个人的身体，而不是机器。”</p>
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<p>Schoolteacher Prem Lata is one of the over 500,000 government employees that have been pulled in to update India's vast voter list. - Esha Mitra/CNN</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>学校教师普雷姆·拉塔是超过 50 万名被调入更新印度庞大选民名单的政府员工之一。 - Esha Mitra/CNN</p>
</div><p>The ordeal isn’t helped by India’s Byzantine bureaucracy.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>这一困境并没有因为印度复杂的官僚体系而得到缓解。</p>
</div><p>Since 2003, countless people have moved hundreds of miles for new jobs. Many women have married and taken their husband’s surname. And a large number of people, especially those who are poorer, do not have knowledge of the registration process, nor possess one of the 12 accepted government-issued documents needed for verification.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>自 2003 年以来，无数人为了新工作迁移了数百英里。许多女性结婚后改用丈夫的姓氏。而且，许多特别是贫困人群的人对注册过程缺乏了解，也没有 12 种被接受的政府签发的文件之一来进行核实。</p>
</div><p>In India’s rambunctious and frenetic political system, tinkering with the voter list attracts enormous scrutiny, and even litigation.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>在印度喧闹而紧张的政治体系中，修改选民名单会引起巨大的关注，甚至诉讼。</p>
</div><p>Critics of the ruling Hindu-nationalist government say it is using the exercise to exclude minorities, something the government denies.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>批评执政的印度教民族主义政府的人表示，它正在利用这一活动排除少数群体，政府对此予以否认。</p>
</div><p>Opposition parties have claimed their local councilors have been wrongly declared dead. Dozens of legal cases have been filed against Booth Level Officers for alleged negligence of duty, and according to data submitted in parliament, there have even been more than a dozen cases of election workers committing suicide under the pressure.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>反对党声称他们的地方议员被错误地宣布为死亡。数十起法律案件已针对投票站工作人员因涉嫌失职而提起，根据提交给国会的数据，甚至有超过十起选举工作人员在压力下自杀的案件。</p>
</div><h3>‘Untraceable’</h3>
<div class="lb-trans"><h3>‘无法追踪’</h3>
</div><p>At their school in Noida, a sprawling recent outgrow of the capital New Delhi, Lata and seven other Booth Level Officers are working the phones and chasing down the last names on their lists. Their students sit in the sun coloring in their notebooks –– in school, but effectively on holiday.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>在诺伊达的一所学校，拉塔和其他七名投票站工作人员正在打电话，追踪名单上的最后几个姓氏。她的学生们坐在阳光下，在笔记本上涂色——在上课，但实际上是在放假。</p>
</div><p>“Send me the details on WhatsApp; otherwise, your name will get deleted,” Lata says to someone who hasn’t returned the required forms yet. “Today is the last day, then don’t ask me later why it was cancelled.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“把你的详细信息发给我 WhatsApp；否则，你的名字会被删除，” 拉塔对尚未提交所需表格的人说。“今天是最后一天，之后别问我为什么被取消。”</p>
</div><p>Lata was given 945 voters to verify, of which she has managed to complete 600 so far. “Of the remaining, some have moved, and some are dead, and others are untraceable,” she told CNN.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>拉塔被分配了 945 名选民进行核实，到目前为止她已经完成了 600 名。“剩下的中，有些人已经搬走，有些人已经去世，还有一些人无法追踪，” 她告诉 CNN。</p>
</div><p>As well as tardiness, others are simply not convinced they need to cooperate, said Ruby Verma, another Booth Level Officer.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>除了迟到，其他人根本不相信他们需要配合，另一名投票站工作人员鲁比·维尔玛说。</p>
</div><p>“People say I’m already registered as a voter so why do you need all these details again, they don’t get the verification concept,” she added. “It’s a thankless process.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“人们说我已经注册为选民了，为什么还需要这些详细信息，他们不理解核实的概念，” 她补充道。“这是一个无回报的过程。”</p>
</div><p><img src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/3MLC9F0IYueKYE.tWYaVrw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD02OTk-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cnn_articles_875/112d064d60422fd8e33b4e73e20ee75e" alt="" original-src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/3MLC9F0IYueKYE.tWYaVrw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD02OTk-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cnn_articles_875/112d064d60422fd8e33b4e73e20ee75e"/></p>
<p>Students at a school in Noida sit in the sun coloring in their notebooks while their teachers update voter lists. - Esha Mitra/CNN</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>诺伊达的一所学校的学生们坐在阳光下，在笔记本上涂色，而他们的老师正在更新选民名单。 - Esha Mitra/CNN</p>
</div><p>India has revised its national voter list eight times since it gained independence from Britain in 1947 and became the world’s biggest democracy.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>自 1947 年独立以来，印度已八次修订国家选民名单，成为世界上最大的民主国家。</p>
</div><p>The last time it did so, in 2003, the national electorate was roughly 600 million people and the process took place over 6 months.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>上一次修订是在 2003 年，当时全国选民大约为 6 亿人，整个过程持续了 6 个月。</p>
</div><p>This time authorities gave booth officers just one month to verify around 500 million voters across the 12 states and union territories. That deadline has been extended twice for most states, and four times in the country’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh, where officers like Lata struggle to find some electors and people struggle to find the necessary documents.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>这一次，官方只给投票站工作人员一个月的时间来核实大约 5 亿名选民，覆盖 12 个州和联邦领地。这个截止日期已被大多数州延长了两次，而在印度人口最多的北方邦，官员们像拉塔一样，努力寻找一些选民，且人们也在努力寻找所需的文件，截止日期已延长了四次。</p>
</div><p>Geeta Rana, 40, is one of those people. Since the list was last updated she has moved home and taken her husband’s surname. Her parents have also died, and she doesn’t know which constituency they previously voted in, a detail necessary to verify that she is a legitimate voter.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>吉塔·拉娜（40 岁）就是其中之一。自上次更新名单以来，她已经搬家并改用了丈夫的姓氏。她的父母也去世了，她不知道他们之前投票的选区，这是核实她作为合法选民所需的细节。</p>
</div><p>“My daughter is 19 so she is registering to vote this year,” Rana told CNN. “But her vote would be linked to mine, and if mine doesn’t get verified, then it’s not just my vote that’s lost, it’s hers too.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“我女儿 19 岁，所以她今年要注册投票，” 拉娜告诉 CNN。“但她的投票将与我的关联，如果我的投票没有得到核实，那么失去的就不仅是我的投票，还有她的。”</p>
</div><p><img src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/VPEjCS7QQANB8FWxivlw1g--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD02OTk-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cnn_articles_875/bf0bad614fe9cf7a91e661e963ce20d2" alt="" original-src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/VPEjCS7QQANB8FWxivlw1g--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD02OTk-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cnn_articles_875/bf0bad614fe9cf7a91e661e963ce20d2"/></p>
<p>Geeta Rana (R) with her daughter has been trying to make sure her identity as a voter is registered. - Esha Mitra/CNN</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>吉塔·拉娜（右）与女儿一起努力确保她的选民身份得到注册。 - Esha Mitra/CNN</p>
</div><p>It’s a common difficulty at Lata’s school. Many trying to get their voting rights verified are migrant workers from out of state, making tracking down documents and parents’ details more complicated.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>这是 Lata 所在学校的一个普遍难题。许多试图验证投票权的都是来自外州的移民工人，这使得追踪文件和家长的详细信息变得更加复杂。</p>
</div><h3>Millions of names removed</h3>
<div class="lb-trans"><h3>数百万名字被删除</h3>
</div><p>Critics of the government say it is using the exercise to remove supporters of its opponents from the voter list.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>政府的批评者表示，它正在利用这一举措从选民名单中删除对其对手的支持者。</p>
</div><p>In West Bengal, another state currently verifying its electoral roll, more than 5.8 million people have been deleted according to the draft list published December 16.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>在西孟加拉邦，另一个目前正在验证选民名单的州，根据 12 月 16 日发布的草案，超过 580 万人已被删除。</p>
</div><p>Nearly half of those names are deceased — including at least one councilor of the All India Trinamool Congress, according to the party, which is one of Modi’s biggest opponents and currently governs the state.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>根据该党称，其中近一半的名字已故，包括至少一名全印度特兰穆尔大会的议员，该党是莫迪最大的对手之一，目前在该州执政。</p>
</div><p>Similarly, millions of names have been deleted from voter lists of states like Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat according to drafts published earlier this month.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>同样，根据本月早些时候发布的草案，泰米尔纳德邦、中央邦和古吉拉特邦等州的选民名单中也删除了数百万个名字。</p>
</div><p>Other opposition parties and activists have pointed out that the documents officials are asking electors to submit, instead of their existing voter IDs, are those that are typically used to establish citizenship.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>其他反对党和活动人士指出，官员要求选民提交的文件，而不是现有的选民身份证，通常是用于证明公民身份的文件。</p>
</div><p>India’s home minister Amit Shah has defended the process. The revision of the voter lists is “nothing but a verification of legitimate voters,” he said in parliament recently.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>印度内政部长阿米特·沙阿为这一过程辩护。他最近在议会中表示，选民名单的修订 “无非是对合法选民的验证”。</p>
</div><p>“Should a person be able to vote in more than one place, should those who have died be included in the voter list?”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“一个人是否应该能够在多个地方投票，死去的人是否应该被列入选民名单？”</p>
</div><p>In Lata’s home state of Uttar Pradesh, multiple police complaints have been registered against workers drafted in to update the voter lists, for alleged breaches of “official duty.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>在 Lata 的家乡北方邦，已对被征召更新选民名单的工作人员提出多起警方投诉，指控其 “违反公务”。</p>
</div><p>“I’ve been working as a teacher for two decades, so the idea that I could lose my job after all these years of course is scary. But we are going above and beyond to complete this task because we also don’t want people to lose their vote,” Lata said.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“我已经当了二十年的老师，所以在这些年之后我可能会失去工作的想法当然是令人害怕的。但我们正在全力以赴完成这项任务，因为我们也不希望人们失去投票权，” Lata 说。</p>
</div><p>As stress levels rise and the deadline approaches, Lata and her colleagues make the most of the lighter moments.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>随着压力水平上升和截止日期临近，Lata 和她的同事们充分利用轻松的时刻。</p>
</div><p>Like the difficulties posed by two neighbors both named Suraj Chauhan, whose parents also shared similar names. Or the eight different people in eight different neighborhoods who all appeared to have the same father.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>比如两个邻居都叫 Suraj Chauhan，他们的父母也有相似的名字。或者在八个不同社区中，八个不同的人似乎都有同一个父亲。</p>
</div><p>“It doesn’t feel like it’s going to end,” said Lata. “It’s relentless and we still haven’t matched all voters so if they extend the deadline that would be good - otherwise we’ll just have to submit what we have.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“感觉这不会结束，” Lata 说。“这太无情了，我们仍然没有匹配所有选民，所以如果他们延长截止日期那就太好了——否则我们只能提交我们所拥有的。”</p>
</div><p>Dates for when the rest of India’s states will go through the same process haven’t been finalized yet, but authorities want to get it done by the next general election, scheduled for 2029.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>其他印度各州何时会经历同样的过程尚未最终确定，但当局希望在 2029 年计划的下一次大选之前完成。</p>
</div><p>But the work doesn’t end for Lata, even when her state submits its new roll.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>但即使她所在的州提交了新的选民名单，Lata 的工作也不会结束。</p>
</div><p>“Once this is done we have to get into registering new voters,” she said. “And then elections will be upon us and of course we have to get back to the actually job we are being paid for: teaching kids.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“一旦完成这项工作，我们还必须开始注册新选民，” 她说。“然后选举就要来了，当然我们还得回到我们被支付的实际工作上：教孩子们。”</p>
</div><p><em>This article has been updated to reflect an extension of the deadline in Uttar Pradesh.</em></p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p><em>本文已更新，以反映北方邦截止日期的延长。</em></p>
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