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Why the heck should I? I just hate the polls. No not just because a high flying big shot tries to put on and portray a common man's visage among the commonest of common men and women in hinterland Trivandrum. Not because a woman officer is forced to be chief electoral officer when the man who tried to grab her once upon a time is going great guns as the angel-in-charge of Dalit empowerment. Not because an old man who is totally at sea about the modern day world is calling another who thinks young, names. Not because a sweet looking heir-apparent grabs a sun-burnt kid hoping he would get all the other kids' parents' votes as a bunch. No, not because elections are a means of livelihood for some and pass time for many. I hate the polls. For, my democratic, fundamental rights as an Indian are plucked from my soul and thrown to the wind. I have all the right to say no to someone who smiles at me all of a sudden as if we knew each other from time immemorial. I hate beggars who be