New York: The world’s richest businessman Elon Musk praised the Election Commission’s action on counting of votes for Maharashtra and Jharkhand assemblies in India and criticized the slow process of counting US votes. Musk said in a post that in India, 64 crore votes can be counted in a day, while in California, counting is going on even after 18 days.
After the results of Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections in India and by-elections to 46 assembly seats in 13 states were declared on Saturday, Musk retweeted a media report saying that 640 million votes were counted in a single day in India, while the votes Still left. Counting in California. Tesla chief advised America to take lessons from India. Referring to California, Musk said that the counting of votes there has not been completed yet.
It’s been more than two weeks since the US went to the polls for the presidential election on November 5, but the counting is still going on in California. California has more than 2.2 million registered voters, the highest number in the entire United States. According to media reports, 1.60 crore votes have been cast in California and even after 18 days, about 3 lakh to 5.70 lakh votes are still to be counted. California’s regional elections official defended it, saying the slow pace was mainly due to mail-in votes received from other states or abroad. Delay in that post will delay the counting of votes.
