(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

    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.