"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.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1036·
    8 months ago

    Elections have been rigged for a long, long time. Gerrymandering is absolutely insane. Cities with meandering sections cut off. Disadvantaged suburbs slammed into afluent areas across town to dilute the votes.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      38·
      8 months ago

      But not rigged in the way Putin and the Republicans claim. Rigged in ways that help them.

    • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      You could also have any political opponents thrown in jail or wait for them to fall out of a window. You don’t need to tamper with the system that way.

    • fidodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      Rigged overlaps too much with the votes being fake. I think unjust and inequitable are better terms.