Can someone mistake Brazil’s presidential polls for Indian elections? US President Donald Trump does!

Can someone mistake Brazil for India two countries that exist almost diametrically opposite to each other Indias precise antipode sits closer to Brazils fellow South American giant Chile on the globe Apparently US President Donald Trump canIn a glaring factual error the President in a social media post on Sunday referred to Brazils presidential election as Indias to claim that the electoral process in the US was corrupt125 Million People voted today in the first round of Indias Presidential Election The results came out shortly after the vote closed on the SAME DAY Trump said in a Truth Social post riddled with his characteristic grammatical errors before turning to his familiar criticism of the US electoral systemVoting in America is CORRUPT Trump said referring to the weeks taken for the counting of votes in elections in US cities and statesBrazil alphabetically the first part of the acronym BRICS attended a summit of the grouping in New Delhi last month and the two nations met each other in a FIFA international friendly football match in Kolkata on Saturday though neither fact could reliably be cited to explain the mixup by the US President who handed over the sports biggest prize in New Jersey in JulyThe FIFA football World Cup was cohosted by the US where the sport is more commonly known as soccer and the winners trophy was lifted by Spains captain Rodri who popularly goes by one name instead of the full Rodrigo Hernandez Cascante Spain was erroneously referred to as a BRICS country by Trump in January last yearIndias citizens do not directly vote for their President who is elected by an electoral college formed by members of Parliament and state assemblies The incumbent Droupadi Murmu assumed office in 2022For a US President seeking to make a point about the speed and credibility of elections the irony was hard to miss And the confusion was not just geographical it was electoral tooTrumps post referred to 125 million people voting in Indias Presidential elections and marvelled at how quickly the results came out after the vote closed a description that in the details presented fitted Sundays presidential election in Brazil nearly perfectlyBrazil not India went to the polls on Sunday for the first round of its presidential election The South American country recorded 12527 million valid votes according to its electoral authority while results started coming in from 5 pm when voting closed and were updated as ballots were countedIn Detroit Philadelphia California and numerous other US Cities and States the results with much smaller numbers will often take weeks to Rig I mean calculate Trump saidBrazils election on Sunday featured incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Flavio Bolsonaro the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro With neither candidate securing a majority the two will face each other in a runoff on October 25India had nearly 980 million registered electors in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections So while Indias electoral system did not produce the numbers Trump cited the countrys elections have featured prominently in his arguments about how voting should be conducted in the United StatesIn August Trump invoked Indias voter identification system to push for electoral reforms in the USTrump on August 17 said Indias Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar had spoken with officials from his administration and asked how US elections could be held without a valid photo identification cardThe US president made these remarks to drum up support for the SAVE America Act which would require Americans to show proof of citizenship to register to vote impose a nationwide voter identification requirement and severely limit voting by mailIndias last Election had 646000000 Voters Less than one per cent voted by mail and every single Voter had to have a VALID Photo Identity Document We need to pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT now he had then asserted in a social media postThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever