The Suffrage of Elvira
Trinidad's second election under universal suffrage reaches a backward county where the Hindu vote, the Muslim vote and two Jehovah's Witnesses all have to be bought at the going rate. Harbans has the money and a candidate's smile, his agents have the arithmetic, and a stray dog turns up that everyone reads at once as an omen. Democracy arriving as a business with no believers in it.
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