New Delhi: Elon Musk on Sunday praised India’s electoral system, evaluating it to that of the USA. The Tesla CEO took a jab at America’s 2024 Presidential election, which concluded earlier this month on November 5. Whereas Donald Trump secured a transparent mandate to return to the White Home, the vote counting course of remains to be ongoing.
On his platform, ‘X,’ Musk shared a put up stating, “India counted 640 million votes in a single day. California remains to be counting 15 million votes… 18 days later.” He captioned it as “Tragic.”
Tragic https://t.co/K7pjfWhg6D
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2024
India employs Digital Voting Machines (EVMs) for vote counting, with one EVM randomly chosen per meeting phase of a parliamentary constituency for VVPAT matching. This environment friendly course of permits the whole votes, together with postal ballots, to be tallied inside a single day or only a few hours.
In distinction, the vote-counting course of in the USA is laborious. Ballots are counted manually, and outcomes are shared with events, officers, and the general public. Whereas preliminary outcomes are often introduced on Election Evening, remaining tallies, particularly in shut races, can take days to finish as each vote is fastidiously verified.
America not too long ago held its four-yearly presidential election, electing Donald J. Trump as the brand new President. The Republican Celebration secured 312 electoral votes, surpassing the 270-vote threshold wanted for victory. In the meantime, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris managed to safe 226 electoral votes. Trump will formally assume the presidency after the inauguration ceremony on the U.S. Capitol on January 20.
