Inside India: Election Special, Kevin Frayer in Ladakh

An election worker carries a voting machine and his overnight bag as he leaves a central collection point to head for a polling station.

Indian election workers check voting machines before leaving a central collection point for polling stations.

An Indian security force soldier has his helmet adjusted by another as they wait to leave on election duty from a central collection point to head to secure polling stations in Leh, Ladakh, India.

Election workers check voting machines before leaving a central collection point for polling stations.

Security force soldier stands guard on a rooftop at a central collection point for distribution of voting machines for polling stations.

Election workers check voting machines before leaving a central collection point for polling stations.

Indian security force soldiers on election duty sit in a bus as they leave a central collection point to head for a polling station.

An election worker talks on the phone as he stands with voting machines while leaving a central collection point to head for a polling station.

Election workers check voting machines before leaving a central collection point for polling stations.

Security force soldiers on election duty unload equipment off a bus as they leave a central collection point to head for a polling station.

Election workers check voting machines as they prepare to distribute them to workers at a central collection point before heading to polling stations.

A Buddhist monk from the Drukpa lineage leaves a polling station after voting near the Hemis Monastery.

Buddhist monks from the Drukpa lineage hold their voting cards as they wait outside a polling station to vote near the Hemis Monastery.

Ladkahis wait inside a polling station to vote near the Thiksey Monastery.

Ladkahi women wait at a polling station to vote near the Thiksey Monastery.

A view of news and daily life on the Indian subcontinent for the week of May 8, 2014.