U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agrees with him that letting voters send in ballots by mail puts honest elections at risk.
“Vladimir Putin, smart guy, said you can’t have an honest election with mail-in voting,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” after a nearly three-hour meeting between the leaders in Alaska. “He said there’s not a country in the world that uses it now.”
“He said there’s not a country in the world that uses it now.”
Sweden does, and probably other EU contries aswell.
Poland have it. After you regiester, the national mailmen will come to your house on electiin day, but you vote in the sealed envelope and hand-deliver it to the balot box… Becouse, you know, disabled people exist. The have the right to vote. Any system that doesnt create the real opportunity to vote for people that have the right to vote is not democratic.
We all are going to be disabled at some point.
Same for uk
Portugal does it too.
Australia does too
Canada does, and all we have to do is request a ballot be mailed to us (in or out of country).
Some US states do this as well. Here in Colorado they mail you your ballot a few weeks before election day as the default. You are able to mail it back, but most people drop them off at secure boxes around town on their own time. You can still vote in person but its way more of a pain in the ass to do, idk why anyone would. Mailed ballots are far better
I can’t ever imagine going back to filling out a ballot at the polling location. It’s so much easier to do at home, when you can take time to actually research all eleventy-billion candidates for federal and state and county and city, then props and measures and…
This is one of the most terminally online things I’ve ever seen…
If anyone reading this is stressed about voting in person (and don’t have a viable mail-in option), you need to know that your anxiety is completely unfounded. You will be just fine, trust me.
If the first time you’re seeing the candidates/issues is when you step into a voting booth, you’re doing it wrong.
Voting isn’t like a test, where the questions are unknown before you get your hands on it. Sample ballots are available well before you go to vote, allowing you to research all the candidates and ballot issues as much as you want, before showing up at a polling location.
And as far as I’m aware, every state lets you bring a “cheat sheet” with you, in case you don’t remember who you preferred for city council position #5 when you looked up the candidates last week.
I spend a day or two making my cheat sheet so that I don’t have to figure out what all the down-ballot stuff is the day of.
And with mail in ballots, you can just put a stamp on that cheat sheet and your job is done. No need to stand in line and re-copy everything again.
Washington State uses only mail voting, it’s fantastic. You get your ballot in the mail, a voter booklet with candidate statements, and you can use a drop box or USPS to return your ballot. Then you can check your ballot status online and get a text when your ballot is received! It’s wonderful when your state actually wants people to vote
republicans only do it in person, thats probably why the gop banks on thier votes, and they dont voter suppress thier districts either, they do it in a democratic county though.
Tons of Republicans voted by mail in 2020
I have seen a lot of Republican states making it harder for voting
The US uses it, too
Some places allow online voting (Estonia) and one of my municipalities, even pre-covid!
Germany too
In Switzerland about 90% of people submit their votes by mail.
Spain does
He meant among the countries with fair elections. You know…Russia…North Korea…did I say Russia?
Belgium does as well
Harder to meddle with I guess
trump and the gop already rigged the last 3 elections with the mail ins, what more does he want.
Remember when USAians were terrified of the Russians.
Of course the fascists want everyone susceptible to voter intimidation. Yawn.
Sorry, The Orange One is getting lessons on fair elections from PUTIN?? That’s like going to a lion for advice on going vegetarian.
Well, he probably helped Trump “win” the last election. Why wouldn’t he take advice from him?
What a fucking demented weakling.
Well then he can fuck off to Russia
More like puttin has some nice dirt on trump
Something about a guy with an island …
Postal voting isn’t a secret ballot so there is concern wherever people aren’t entitled to a private residence of their own. However the accessibility and the presence of paper ballots for recounts (which reduces conflict and increases trust) is such a larger social insurance.
Its obvious why free countries embrace mail in ballots especially in a heavily rural country like the US.
Secret ballots are really important. There should be an effort into making in person voting more accessible and ending postal voting imo. Not american though, but i know my country historically had a very big problem of people being coerced to vote for certain candidates. The vote now is secret, spreaded all around the country and public transportation is free on voting days, which are on weekends.
Oh! Well, if Putler says it, I guess it’s right, then.
Trump is such a bitch.
My question is why the fuck would Trump and Putin be talking about elections during a negotiation for peace for a country being attacked who isn’t even present.
Why would Putin get a red carpet treatment from the US in the first place? Putin and Trump announced to the world they are now allies.
Because Trump can’t stay on one subject for more than about 30 seconds. He was probably rambling while Putin nodded along.
why in the fuck are we asking him anything?
because pootin is the real leader of the USA. He controls dumpy.
Yeah who the FUCK needs his advice on elections other than “how to rig them”
Goddammit Alaska you’ve got so many guns…
Red state, they like him there. give it time, tho
There were so many liberals protesting tho, and even they’ve got guns up there!
there were, relatively speaking. but Anchorage is a really small place. the crowd that gathered there are a sadly stark minority, even as nice as it was to see them.
however, the kind of civilian that tends to live in Alaska is generally a little unusual. if there would be an aspiring leftist assassin, it’s one of the only places that value the cultural norms that would create one. so it’s not entirely unpossible
… you think Trump asked him?
At this point daddy Putin said here’s the marching orders and please for the love of god try to stay on script.
We don’t give a fuck what Putin thinks. He’s the example of what not to do.
The US declared on Friday that they were now allied with Russia and the response from the media was that Trump appeared “weak”. We can’t even acknowledge reality.
Two obituaries I can’t wait to read.
Kinda bummed nobody tried something. In a country with so many guns you think there would a single rebel in this death star of a country. Not even some rogue canadian.
that’s evidence you’re wrong, you fucking muppet
Remember when Taco had the audacity to call Hillary the puppet?
Projection. It’s always projection with the cons.
