US Election Results Live - Donald Trump Wins 277 Vs Kamala Harris 226 to Become 47th President of USA

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 Kamala Harris Vs Donald Trump - US Election Results Live Today

 According to latest news reports, Republican candidate Donald Trump won 9 counties including Florida, Indiana, Kentucky and more while Democrat Kamala Harris won Vermont and four other seats as the early projections started streaming in. The voting is now closed and counting of the ballots is underway. Over 82 million people in the country took advantage of early voting to cast their ballots.

You can Follow the US Election Results Live Here.

The U.S. presidential election uses a total of 538 electoral votes, with a candidate needing 270 to win. In 2020, Joe Biden secured 306 electoral votes, defeating Donald Trump, who earned 232. The election outcome also determines control of Congress—the Senate and House of Representatives. Polls suggest a tight race between Trump and Kamala Harris, with swing states like Pennsylvania, Florida, and Wisconsin potentially deciding the winner, meaning the results may take time to finalise.

The 2024 U.S. presidential election has been marked by intense drama and unpredictability. Key events include Trump’s courtroom conviction, an injury from a bullet grazing his ear, a pivotal debate that dampened Joe Biden's chances of re-election, and Kamala Harris's last-minute nomination. Harris, aiming to become the first female president, focuses on bipartisan cooperation to address economic issues while staying aligned with Biden's policies. In contrast, Trump promises to replace federal workers with loyalists, impose tariffs on both allies and adversaries, and carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history.

The New York Times predicts that Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, is projected to win 277 electoral votes, while Kamala Harris is expected to secure 261 votes. However, the race remains a "tossup," with both candidates still competing for key battleground states. The final outcome will depend on the remaining votes, as both candidates strive to secure the last electoral votes needed to win.

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There are 51 separate elections with 6 different time zones in each US state. Each state has its own rules and practices for counting the votes. Officially, November 5th has been set as the Election Day, but the actual final picture may take hours or days to emerge due to the neck-and-neck contest between Democrat Kamala Harris and her Republican rival Donald Trump.

To complicate matters more, unlike in India, there is no election commission to tabulate the results. It is the responsibility of the state and local governments to count the votes. Therefore, all the citizens of US and the world have to rely on the American media to provide the election results within hours of the end of voting.

"According to the BBC, the last polls will close at 01.00 EST, which, as per Indian time, will be 11.30 am on Wednesday. Thus, by Wednesday night, a clear picture of the trends may start to emerge about who is ahead in the race to occupy the White House."

Indian Air Force & Uber Mobility MoU - Why Question It?

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A few days back a section of a podcast went viral. The subject of discussion was MoU signed between Indian Air Force and Uber towards mobility solutions for Air Force personnel and their families. The so-called experts were mocking not only the concept / arrangement made by the organization, but also deriding the people behind the concept as also the leadership of the Air Force. The excuse – Security concerns on using a mobile app from a US Company storing data outside India. 

 

Which world are thses guys living in? Do they think that the Indian Armed Forces do not allow their personnel to use commercially available smart phones, or that the Armed Forces personnel and their families do not use Uber otherwise, or that these men and their families do not use any apps on their phones, or that they use only Indian made apps storing data only on servers within India, or that Armed Forces personnel and their families do not use any apps from Alphabet, Meta or Amazon, or that these companies cannot or do not track the movements/actions of their users, or that any of these companies will profile the user data only if the parent organization has a formal MoU with the said company or that the Indian Armed Forces have the budget to provide a Government Vehicle to all the personnel or that the intelligence of the other countries is so weak that they do not know the locations of the bases of Indian Armed Forces, which is crazy since we actually have railway stations named after cantonments, for God’s sake or, finally, that the senior leadership has not carried out the due diligence before giving the go ahead.

 

Given a data set of mobile usage, any amateur data analyst can figure out the workplace of any person. If you use Google maps, it actually asks the user to set the location as workplace or home when it sees you are travelling back and forth to same locations during mornings and evenings. So, there it is, if one is travelling to sena bhavan even in his own vehicle, Maps and so many other apps already know that you are working in the Armed Forces and that too in the Headquarters. You don’t have to be using the Uber app or even registering with them for Uber and the other apps to start profiling you. And even if you are using a service vehicle but carrying a smart phone, you are still being tracked. So, what are we trying to achieve by denying a welfare scheme to the Armed Forces personnel.

Few lessons to be learnt here. 

 

First, an expertise on one subject does not make one an expert on all subjects. Just because someone is a good orator and specializes in one subject should not and does not give them the right or authority to opine on any other subject under the garb of free speech. The people on the podcast, besides indulging in fearmongering, damaged their own reputation as well as their own following, by speaking on a subject clearly out of their grasp. None of the panelists in the said podcast are qualified in cyber security, mobile telephony, defence matters or mobility solutions. Still they yap!!  

 

Second, one should not shun development, technology or even an idea just because there is a risk, but we should take measures to mitigate the risk and protect ourselves from misuse, abuse or even sabotage. Pathankot, Uri, Pulwama did not happen because of Armed Forces personnel travelling in taxis. 

 

Lastly, it is a common issue in the civilian/corporate world, they get in an expert to solve their problem and then start telling the expert how to solve the problem. Likewise, here, people who have entrusted their own security to the Armed Forces, are now questioning the capability of the Armed Forces to look after the security of the Armed forces personnel. If these people are so concerned about security of the armed forces, they probably should canvass against any commercial activity, buildings, hotels in the vicinity of the Naval docks, Army cantonments and Air Force bases. For example, stop civilian/foreigner movements around Gateway of India, shut down Taj Palace hotel, Mazagaon docks, etc., the list is endless.

 

PS: Microsoft Word just auto corrected the spelling of Mazagon, above. Is it now a national security threat, Should I stop using MS Word?