Electric circuits in a bulding Calcutta Kolkata India. Image credit: Jorge Royan (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ( via Wikimedia Commons
ANN ARBOR-About a third of India's electricity is lost each year. It just never gets billed. Some is stolen or disappears because of technical problems. It's enough power to light up all of Italy for a year. The problem gets especially bad during elections when electricity is used to win votes, a new University of Michigan study shows. The research focused on state elections in Uttar Pradesh-the country's largest state-and found that power losses increased by three percentage points just before the polls. "Our paper offers a political explanation on electricity loss and why it persists in plain sight," said Brian Min, assistant professor of political science.
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