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Why Does America Take Weeks to Count Votes? | Vantage on Firstpost

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India, home to over 1.4 billion people, can deliver a broad election verdict in a single counting day. Yet the United States can take days or even weeks to establish its election results. Why? From America’s decentralised election administration, mail-in ballots and state-specific counting rules to India’s widespread use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and coordinated counting schedule, we examine the striking differences between the two democracies. How does India manage elections on such an enormous scale? And what makes America’s vote-counting process so prolonged? Watch this explainer on two very different approaches to conducting democracy.

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