Public votes held in Russia’s new regions were honest and transparent because people showed up to cast their ballots in person, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. He went on to contrast the process with voting by mail in the US.
Speaking at a meeting with municipal educators in Moscow, the Russian president brought up the 2020 American presidential election as an example of what democracy should not look like.
“It’s probably possible to falsify anything. Just like the previous elections in the US were falsified through voting by mail. Well, it’s clear what voting by mail is. They bought ballots for $10, wrote them in, and without any supervision from observers, tossed them into mailboxes. And there you go,” Putin said.
His observation came in response to a question about the voting in Kherson and Zaporozhye regions and the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, four formerly Ukrainian territories that joined Russia in 2022. No one forced people there to show up at the polls, or barred them from doing so – they simply voted with their feet, Putin said.
Multiple US states changed their election rules in 2020 to allow voting via mail-in ballots, citing the Covid-19 pandemic. The final official results showed Democrat Joe Biden winning 81 million votes, the most ever in US history, over the incumbent, Republican Donald Trump.
Trump has challenged the election as “rigged,” pointing to various irregularities in half a dozen states as well as the mail-in ballots that were impossible to audit. The Democrats and most US media have denounced anyone questioning the 2020 vote as an “election denier” and insisted that everything was perfectly legitimate.
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The Most Revolutionary Act 
Busting major 9/11 controlled demolition co-conspirator Rudy Giuliani for election crimes would be the equivalent of busting Al Capone for tax evasion… Whatever works – in both cases they’d have gotten the mass murderer creeps off the streets…
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J. Edgar Hoover who created the FBI, might agree with you, but he was a paranoid agent whose book about communism, “Masters of Deceit” probably helped teach others how to play the game. He did share to fuel the Red Scare in the US.
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Hoover was still very young when he went after Capone, Katherine. He was quick to learn that it was far more rewarding to join the Mob rather than fight them.
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Sounds like a winning strategy, Jerry.
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Voting by mail is only one of the ways elections can be rigged. In the early 1960s, my mother was a poll watcher and saw 100 votes already registered on the voting machine for her candidate’s opponent in a local election, even before the polls opened. No one did anything to correct the mistake. Forever afterwards, she complained about rigged voting machines.
Now, the contract for electronic voting machines in Georgia is held by Diebold, the same contractor that maintains ATM machines in my area. Is there any oversight, given the very real intentional or unintentional glitches that are inherent in all electronic technology? Who would know (or care)?
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To be honest, Katherine, I’ve become pretty disillusioned with representative democracy. I think direct democracy, peoples assemblies and townhall meetings are the only way to go.
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Me, too. I loved living in a small town, for that reason, but it didn’t last long.
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