Ms Kamla Harris, democratic party Senator from California who is also planning to contest the Presidential position in the United States has demanded that US should immediately switch to Paper Ballet so that people’s mandate cant be hacked by the enemies of the nation. I think this point is as important for India as for US as democracy is endangered in both the countries at the moment. Will the election commission of India as well as political parties would campaign against this or not.
I am quoting what Kamala Harris has tweeted in the morning :
“The reason paper ballots would help secure our elections is really simple: our foreign adversaries can’t hack a piece of paper. We have a bill right now in the Senate to require hand-marked paper ballots in all federal elections—we must pass it immediately. This can’t wait.”
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