Arizona: A recent Indian-American Republican candidate for president, Vivek Ramaswamy, who pulled out of presidential race to support Trump recently, has recently been quoted as criticising the US on early voting. In his speech to the Trump rally in Arizona, Ramaswamy gave advocacy for having one election day on America like India which practises it.
On voting Ramaswamy said, The way that I like that all the voting should be done in single day on a national holiday and the voting should be done through paper ballots only. The government should provide actual voters with voters’ IDs that correspond to the lists of voters. This is resourced based on the campaign that, “This is what I stand for, this is what Donald Trump stands for.”
US voters are allowed to start voting a month before the election day, something Ramaswamy has condemned. However, India prohibits political canvassing for 36 hours before the poll and conducts the polls in phases given the nation’s big population size.
Contrary to his stance against early voting, Ramaswamy encouraged people in the crowd to beat the system, as it currently exists. “We may not like early voting, but we need to come out and vote by any means necessary, as we have a country to save,” he told the crowd.
Who is Vivek Ramaswamy?
Vivek Ramaswamy, an Indian-American billionaire businessman, came to the fore in the Republican race last year before supporting Donald Trump. Ramaswamy was born in United States to Indian immigrants hailing from Palakkad, Kerala but he passed through his basic education in Ohio before proceeding to Harvard College and Yale University. He remains heard to date in the conservative political base of power.