Elon Musk surprised at India counting’ 640 million votes in one day’,’ California still.’
Elon Musk on Saturday praised India’s election process and expressed concern over the extremely slow process of counting votes in several US countries. While praising India for counting nearly 640 million votes during the Lok Sabha choices, the Tesla CEO also took a dig at the US presidential election counting, which is still going on in California nearly 20 days after it began on November 5.
The Space X CEO’s commentary on India’s electoral system came a day after counting of votes for the Maharashtra and Jharkhand state assembly choices and by- choices ended on Saturday.
In a single day, India recorded 640 million votes. Votes still being counted in California,” Elon Musk wrote on X while participating a screenshot of an composition on Indian election vote counting.
The tech billionaire’s post comes at a time when California is still counting votes for the US Presidential Election 2024, listed to be held on November 5. According to the Los Angeles Times, citing the Secretary of State’s office, an estimated 570,500 ballots are still to be counted across the state.
Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly choices
Voting for the Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly choices was held in a single phase on November 20.The votes were counted on November 23.
According to the Election Commission of India, the BJP won 132 seats in Maharashtra. The Shiv Sena won 57 seats, the Ajit Pawar- led Nationalist Congress Party( NCP) won 41 seats, the Congress was confined to 16 seats and Sharad Pawar’s NCP secured 10 seats.
Meanwhile, in Jharkhand, Hemant Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha( JMM) surfaced victorious on 33 seats, BJP won 21 seats, Congress won 16 seats and RJD secured 4 seats.
US Presidential Election in California
One of the most dynamic states in the US is California. choices in the state are generally conducted by post and correspondence- in ballots bear further time and trouble to corroborate than votes cast in person.
choices and vote counting in the US follow a fully different process than in India. The vote count numbers in the two countries are also released else. According to The Hindu, news agency AP and some other media outlets in the US give the vote count numbers.
