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"Now that the quid pro quo in India's opaque electoral funding has been exposed, electronic voting machines are the next port of call for judicial scrutiny. And rightly so." "Western democracies, having flirted with technology, have mostly decided against surrendering the act of recording a citizen's most profound electoral choice entirely to machines. In 2009, Germany's constitutional court declared computer-aided voting unconstitutional for failing to meet standards of public scrutiny." In February, "India's Supreme Court ...scrapped a seven-year-old election funding system that allows individuals and companies to make unlimited and anonymous donations to political parties, calling it 'unconstitutional'." Reuters. These were the infamous 'Electoral Bonds'. Total value of Electoral Bonds sold amounted to Rs 165.18 billion of which the BJP received Rs 82.518 billion, more than the combined amount received by the Congress in second place with Rs 19.52 billion and the TMC in third place with Rs 17.05 billion. The Wire. "A modest overhaul of a controversial surveillance program foundered in the House of Representatives...after Democratic and Republican critics, including Donald Trump, said it gave the government too much power." Reuters. In India, on the other hand, "The state has used almost every opportunity to appropriate superior rights under the pretext of national security or economic imperatives." "The Indian citizen's individual rights are enshrined in the Constitution, especially in Articles 19 and 21." But, "Clauses permitting preventive detention constitute a glaring contravention of basic democratic rights and civil liberties that has been carried forward from a colonial regime to a modern day republic," wrote Rajrishi Singhal. "What is worse? Police flouting all mandatory procedures while arresting and gathering evidence, or the government lawyer, an officer of the court, asking judges to overlook this conduct?" "The police is the repressive arm of the state. That's how it was conceived of when the British ruled over us," and "No government is going to let go of its most potent weapon against the people," wrote Jyoti Punwani. "Apple Inc has warned its users in  India and 91 other countries that they were possible victims of a 'mercenary spyware attack' dropping the word 'state sponsored' it used in its previous alerts," "after it repeatedly faced pressure from the Indian government on linking such breaches to state actor." Reuters. To shut any critics abroad, "An organisation targeting critics of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set up and is being run by an officer of India's top spy agency, the Washington Post has claimed." Dawn. The US Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, right of property and freedom from unreasonable arrest. wikipedia. Indians have virtually no rights. The US is rich and strong. We have 813.5 million people receiving free food grains. pib.gov.in. An imprisoned people will always be impoverished. That is fundamental to being human.