Outsource US elections to India?

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Following a talk last week at a college forum about foreign perception of US elections, a bright-eyed student stepped up to the microphone during Q&A and asked me what advice did Indians have for Americans, especially after India had completed its elections using electronic voting machines.


"Just outsource your election," I replied jauntily, submitting a thought I had exchanged with a colleague after the Florida fiasco. Even back then, it was obvious that a poor and chaotic democracy like India had a better system in place than the US of A.

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Part of the problem with American elections is that it is a decentralised system with states and even counties having their own election laws and procedures.

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There is always the possibility that the 'smother of all democracies', which pays such suffocating but selective lip service to freedom, liberty etc may not like it. Such gall, ji, teaching Umreekans how to conduct elections and practice democracy!


Outsourcing elections
INDIASPORA/CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/897075.cm

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1. What did we expect after we handed them our economy? Respect?

Admiration? Or the contempt we deserve?