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-Sokela Tayang is no ordinary voter.
In fact, she's the only voter in her village.
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-I want to bless [the polling officers].
They have come here for me and taken so much trouble.
I am very happy.
-On voter rolls, she is one of 900 million people
in India's massive national election currently underway.
An exercise so massive
that its election commission needs over 11 million officials
and security personnel to conduct it over 38 days.
An exercise so thorough
that they ensure that no voter is left out --
not even Sokela,
who lives in a remote hamlet over 1,600 miles away
from the country's capital, New Delhi.
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Her village, Malogam,
in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh,
is close to the border with China.
Just for her,
a six-member polling team traveled over two days.
First, on these treacherous mountain roads,
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then on foot through a slippery jungle path.
-The path here is narrow.
It's difficult to walk in a single file,
so taking voting machines will be even harder.
So this is what we are surveying right now --
where we can set up.
-But when they heard she had moved from her village,
they had to improvise.
A temporary shed was used
as a polling booth at the edge of the forest,
not far from the main road,
so she could make it from another village.
Chairs and cobwebbed tables were borrowed from a nearby villager.
Tell us why you have set up a polling booth
for just one voter?
-It is very important.
Every vote is important. It's her right.
To facilitate her [vote], we have set up this polling station
as per the instructions of the Election Commission [of India].
-There was some nervousness in the team on the day.
-There is both excitement and nervousness.
If the one voter turns up, there will be 100 percent voting.
If she doesn't come, then it will be zero percent.
-The team spent the night in a villager's hut.
There was no electricity or mobile network.
Tayang turned up early, at around 8:30 a.m.
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-We want to ask for jobs and development through our vote.
It's important for everyone.
This area is ignored.
It is still a jungle.
It hasn't been developed. It still needs development.
-Tayang's civil duty was over in minutes,
but the team stayed on till 5 p.m.,
until the official close of voting.
It involved tedious paperwork for the 67-item checklist.
At 5 p.m., they packed their bags and equipment
to drive for another eight hours
to deposit the voting machines at the designated office.
They finished only by 2 a.m.
On May 23,
when the country will count hundreds of millions of votes,
several of them may have to assemble again.
-Election, in my experience, is like a festival.
We come together from different districts and work as a team.
We conduct it systematically and peacefully.
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