On November 5, Americans will cast their votes not only for president but also for 34 Senate seats, all 435 House seats, 11 governorships and thousands of state legislative positions. Among the new contenders is Ashwin Ramaswamy, a young Indian American Democrat who is challenging Republican Senator Sean Still in Georgia’s Senate District 48, a traditionally conservative seat.
Who is Ashwin Ramaswamy?
- Ashwin Ramaswamy was born to Indian immigrant parents from Tamil Nadu and grew up in Johns Creek. He is running for Georgia State Senate in District 48, and meets the minimum age requirement of 25, reaching that age in May 2024.
- According to his election campaign website, Ashwin Ramaswamy studied computer science at Stanford University and then earned a law degree from Georgetown University.
- He has a strong background in cybersecurity, having worked with CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, where he helped secure local election systems from cyberattacks, and Schmidt Futures, where he developed open-source software. Contributed to a bill. In Congress. After realizing that the greater threat to democracy lay not just in cyberattacks, but in political misinformation around election integrity, he decided to leave his job at CISA to run for office for three years, NBC News reported. Decided.
- During his studies, he taught classes on Hindu philosophy and raised $100,000 for religious programs at Georgetown, supporting students of various religions, including Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, and Buddhism.
- Ashwin Ramaswamy’s campaign promises election security and integrity, pitting him against Sean Still’s alleged 2020 election-related activities. Shawn Stills was one of the fake electors who participated in the Donald Trump Fake Electors conspiracy, which aimed to give Georgia’s electoral votes to Donald Trump despite him losing the state to Joe Biden. Mr. Ramaswami’s campaign has raised more than $700,000, considered a significant amount for a first-time candidate.
