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The Enumerator
Working as a junior official in Bombay, you go door to door compiling electoral rolls. The instructions are detailed, but they often fail to account for what you find. Names are missing, identities unclear, households hard to define. Your task is to transform all of this into a list of voters. To do so, you must apply rules that are still taking shape, deciding both who counts and how they should be recorded.
You begin your rounds in Bombay, moving from building to building with a register in hand. The instructions are clear on paper, but harder to apply in practice. The people you meet don’t always fit the categories you’ve been given, and almost every name you record requires a decision.
How do you handle what you find?
Choice 1:
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