{"id":5761,"date":"2024-10-30T10:37:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T10:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/democracy-too-precious-congress-pushes-for-paper-ballots\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T10:37:21","slug":"democracy-too-precious-congress-pushes-for-paper-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/democracy-too-precious-congress-pushes-for-paper-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Democracy too precious&#8217;: Congress pushes for paper ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress MP Manish Tewari urges the Election Commission of India to consider reverting to paper ballots, emphasizing democracy&#8217;s value over technology. This follows ECI&#8217;s rejection of Congress&#8217;s claims of irregularities in Haryana elections, deeming them baseless. BJP&#8217;s Tarun Chugh criticizes Congress for blaming EVMs after electoral losses, calling the party &#8216;a sinking ship.&#8217;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress MP Manish Tewari urges the Election Commission of India to consider reverting to paper ballots, emphasizing democracy&#8217;s value over technology. This follows ECI&#8217;s rejection of Congress&#8217;s claims of irregularities in Haryana elections, deeming them baseless. BJP&#8217;s Tarun Chugh criticizes Congress for blaming EVMs after electoral losses, calling the party &#8216;a sinking ship.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}