Both India and U.S. have the Election Commission. Both the Commission have some special powers in their special context. In this article we are going to compare between the US Federal Election Commission and Indian Election commission.
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Federal Election Commission |
Election commission of India |
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Origin |
The Federal Election Commission was established recently in 1975, with the special mandate to regulate campaign finance issues. |
Election commission of India came in to force on 25th January 1950.
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Members |
The Federal Election Commission is led by six Commissioners. |
Indian Election commission consists of one Chief Election Commissioner and two Election Commissioners.
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Scope |
Federal Election Commission has a much narrower mandate than its Indian equivalent |
By virtue of being the custodian of the electoral roll, all matters related to keeping the roll updated, fall under the ECI’s domain and ECI enjoys enormous power.
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Role of Judiciary |
In U.S the Judicial power can be used in Constitutional issues; voting rights; enforcement; presidential succession. |
In India the role of the judiciary is limited post the election period. |
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Scope of Postal ballot |
In the 2016 U.S. election, almost a quarter of the votes counted arose from postal ballots |
In India we have confined postal ballots to only a few categories, of largely government staff, the police or armed forces. |