Putin says past U.S. elections were rigged

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Putin says past U.S. elections were rigged
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(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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Why would putin lie about such a thing? I'm going to blindly believe him since it confirms my existing beliefs.

I mean, he does know a thing or two about rigged elections.

I don't know, technically killing your opponents isn't really rigging the election.

Rigging an election is something subtle, and Putin doesn't really do subtle. They don't even bother to make their murders look like accidents anymore.