Prez Trump in the United States connects India’s Aadhaar-epic with the Aadhaar-epic of U.S. voter identity lax | World News
New York: U.S. President Donald Trump cited an example of India’s requirement to link voters with their Aadhaar card with their election photo ID card (EPIC) to ensure the integrity of their elections and compare it with LAX’s U.S. Voter Identity Identification System.
In a Tuesday order to prove their citizenship by voters in federal elections, he compared the US and India’s practices and wrote in the first paragraph that India “identifies voter identity to a biometric database, which the US relies heavily on self-attacks to rely on citizenship.”
“Despite the creation of autonomy, the United States has now failed to enforce the basic and necessary election protections that are modern, developed and still developing,” he wrote. Voters will be required to provide a passport or some other document to prove their citizenship vote, under his order.
In contrast to the United States without a national electoral system, in India, electoral rules, laws, institutions and systems are implemented by a strong national election commission, and voting integrity is implemented nationwide.
The Election Law Act (Amendment) passed in 2021 introduces Aadhaar to Epic links. The Election Commission is finalizing the mechanism to complete this provision, and some voters have done so. The United States is not the same as the Indian Election Commission, whose Election Commission only implements election financing regulations.
Elections in the United States are conducted under state and local laws, which vary by country, even the voting machine used, and the system of primary or core meetings that select partisan candidates in the election.
California will clash directly with Trump’s orders as a state law makes it illegal to require the identification of voters. Unlike India and many countries like Europe, the United States does not have a national ID card, and people use their driver’s license as a photo ID or a social security number in a government retirement plan.
Some states issue voter ID cards, but no photos, while others don’t even do so. Trump’s orders will certainly be challenged in court, because elections, even federal elections, are made under the Constitution. Democrats oppose the identification requirement, asserting that the poor may not be able to obtain photo IDs.
Republicans assert that election fraud occurred due to demands for ease. Early voting and postal voting rules also vary by country, and they have been targets of Trump’s criticism after losing the 2020 election. His orders will tighten the rules of postal voting. Trump contrasts the loose voting process in the United States with other countries.
“Germany and Canada require paper tickets, which are calculated in public by local officials, greatly reducing the potential for basic guardianship problems compared to the US voting method,” he wrote.
“Countries such as Denmark and Sweden have wisely limited mail-in voting to those who cannot vote in person, regardless of the date of the postal sign, are not counted on the later votes,” he wrote.
By contrast, he said: “Many U.S. elections are now voting in large numbers by mail, and many officials accept ballots without postal marks or ballots received after the election day.” He also listed Brazil’s requirements to link national biometric national identity with voter ID.
