(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.

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    10 months ago

    The supervision is the signature comparison, just like in person voting where you’d go in, sign the register, and they’d compare that signature to the one on file.

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      10 months ago

      “filled them out, and threw them into mailboxes without any supervision from observers” Where does that suggest it is the signature involved? The signature is compared before Voting when Voting in person and after the office receives it when Voting by Mail. It makes no sense that lil’ dictator pootie meant the signature in his statement.

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        10 months ago

        Valid ballots have signatures matching the registered voter casting the ballot.

        In Putin’s scenario, there are no signatures, the ballots are not associated with registered voters, and as such would be rejected at the polling location.

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          10 months ago

          That is not involved in the supervision of filling them out nor posting them. Both those things happen before or after, not during.

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            10 months ago

            Nobody supervises the filling out of ballots, that’s an entirely private matter.

            The only supervision that happens is the comparing of signatures and that happens both at in person and vote by mail voting.