The article says 2007 members = 29,014
The Theosophist July 2008 shows the number of members eligible to vote = 20,724.

That is a colossal difference. About 30%. The only legitimate difference would normally be that members of less than 2 years standing do not vote, but such an increase when most sections are reporting decreases is illogical. So the only explanation that appears rational is that there are different countings for different occasions, and there is no central place where this is checked out.

Second, I have read in some of the more contraversial correspondance that at least one section considers the Indian Federation’s membership administration to be lacking, presumably therby inferring they got more votes than they should have.

But then, compare that with the USA Section.
The Theosophist July 2008 shows the number of members eligible to vote = 2,757.
In the 2008 Convention Presidential Address reproduced in The Theosophist January 2009, the President’s report on sections, which is presumably provided directly by the Sections themselves, reports a decline of 172, “making a total of about 4,000 members”.

This is a difference of even greater magnitude = 32%.

Off the numbers, the first 3 Presidents were not of South Asian extraction, yet they were “more Indian than the Indians”, and they lived in Adyar. Olcott re-introduced Buddhism to Sri Lanka, Besant was a fierce fighter for Indian independence, Arundale married Rukmini Devi, a renowned Karnatic dancer. As a simple member, I have belonged to 2 Indian lodges and 2 European lodges; in reading correspondance, I see names from American members which can only be of Indian origin. The only level – and the dangerous level – where I see polarization, is at the national section level.

http://www.theosophyforward.com/2008/07/gc-message-%E2%80%93-international-election/