US cites India on voter IDs, but are elections under Modi clean?
Trump highlights India’s voter ID rules to bolster his case for stricter US election laws. US President Donald Trump has been touting India’s election system as a model for tougher voter-identification rules in the United States that he is trying to force through in the face of political opposition. In a Truth Social post on Monday, the US president said India’s Chief Election Commissioner had asked his administration how the US could hold elections without a valid photo ID. “India’s last election had 646,000,000 voters! Less than 1 percent voted by mail, and every single voter had to have a valid photo identity document,” he said. The US president used the comparison to renew his push for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, legislation that would require people registering to vote in federal elections to provide documentary proof of US citizenship and impose stricter voter-ID requirements.
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According to the election commission website, voters can submit their vote on an “electronically received postal ballot from their preferred location” outside of their assigned voting constituency, and “send back the marked postal ballot through the post”. The report reviewed elections that had been “meticulously” studied for voter fraud and found incident rates between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent.
