Modi is the winner of this year's reader poll for TIME Person of the Year, but his name does not figure in the magazine editors' own list of final eight.
This year's possible winners include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Alibaba founder Jack Ma,
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iraqi Kurdish
President Massoud Barzani and singer Taylor Swift.
The TIME editors' choice of the person who have had the biggest influence on the
news within the past year will be announced Wednesday.
In the final tally of reader poll, Modi received more than 16 percent of the almost
five million votes cast.
A majority of votes, 60 percent, came from desktop computers. Just over 35 percent
came from mobile devices, and 4.5 percent of readers voted on tablets.
