"In the United States, previous elections were falsified through postal voting ... they bought ballots for $10, filled them out, and threw them into mailboxes without any supervision from observers, and that's it," Putin said, without providing evidence. Putin's opponents say the March election in Russia is no real contest as the president wields unchallenged power and his main rival, Alexei Navalny, is serving more than 30 years in jail on charges that Navalny says were trumped up. They say the use of electronic voting creates scope for authorities to manipulate the vote in Putin's favour without detection.

(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, running for a new six-year term in an election that his opponents say is a parody of democracy, said on Tuesday that past U.S. elections had been rigged by postal voting.

“In the United States, previous elections were falsified through postal voting … they bought ballots for $10, filled them out, and threw them into mailboxes without any supervision from observers, and that’s it,” Putin said, without providing evidence.

    • gibmiser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      100·
      9 months ago

      Why would putin lie about such a thing? I’m going to blindly believe him since it confirms my existing beliefs.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          I don’t know, technically killing your opponents isn’t really rigging the election.

          Rigging an election is something subtle, and Putin doesn’t really do subtle. They don’t even bother to make their murders look like accidents anymore.

    • jas0n@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      9 months ago

      This 100%. The Russian propaganda to right wing talking heads pipeline is just so painfully obvious.