Letters to The Editor — April 24, 2026

‘Record’ voter turnout

The euphoria surrounding Tamil Nadu’s historic voter turnout in the 2026 Assembly elections — surging past 82% by evening — deserves a closer and more sober examination. While political parties across the spectrum have rushed to interpret the numbers through the prism of their own narratives, the real story lies not in voter enthusiasm alone, but in a quiet statistical transformation engineered months before polling day.