Putin falsely claims past US elections ‘falsified’ through mail-in voting
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that U.S. elections have been falsified through mail-in 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, according to Reuters. Putin, who…
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. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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