Trump says Putin agrees with him US should not have mail-in voting
Source: Reuters
August 16, 2025 12:31 AM EDT Updated 10 hours ago
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - 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."
Trump, who promoted the false narrative that he, not Democrat Joe Biden, won the 2020 election, cited his agreement with Putin over absentee voting as he pressed his fellow Republicans to try harder to advance overhauls to the U.S. voting system that he has long sought. Trump has voted by mail in some previous elections and urged his supporters to do so in 2024.
Putin, who has been Russia's president or prime minister since 1999, was elected to another term in office with 87% of the vote in a 2024 election that drew allegations of vote rigging from some independent polling observers, opposition voices and Western governments. The most formidable opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, died in an Arctic penal colony in 2024. Russia's embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment on his conversation with Trump.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-putin-agrees-with-him-us-should-not-have-mail-in-voting-2025-08-16/


no_hypocrisy
(53,074 posts)brush
(61,033 posts)about our elections? TSF is being led and told what to say and thing again by his Russian handler.
What a moron, floating a trial balloon out to see if magats will get on the bandwagon and start calling to ban mail in voting...which always seems to favor rethugs.
slightlv
(6,558 posts)it's worked for putin, even to the point of making our own country a copycat version of russia's police state!
cab67
(3,480 posts)MLWR
(535 posts)to describe how little I care about what a war criminal thinks* of mail-in voting.
ananda
(33,157 posts)Let Russia tell us how to run our elections.
Sure.
DavidDvorkin
(20,350 posts)Autumn
(48,362 posts)I love my mail in ballots.
question everything
(50,966 posts)This is what I needed
OMGWTF
(4,903 posts)I think all 50 states should have 100% mail in ballots. It solves a fkton of problems: no lines to wait in, no scanners to breakdown, you can vote at your leisure, and the best part is there is a paper trail. I was a Democratic election observer in Pierce County, Washington which is a 100% mail-in ballot state and am confident that every effort is made to accurately count the vote. No wonder T💩p and his overlord are against it.
popsdenver
(481 posts)that the scanners have to be programmed ?????????
Retrograde
(11,280 posts)run tests before the ballots are mailed and do hand checks on random ballots to make sure the process works correctly.Ive been voting by mail exclusively since 2003 and I love it
generalbetrayus
(1,209 posts)
Mr.Bee
(1,215 posts)EndlessWire
(8,103 posts)why this was a talking point. I wonder if Putin gave him advice on how to push people out of windows.
What a productive meeting. Our pres getting advice on how to rig elections.
PatSeg
(50,944 posts)Now we're supposed to take election advice from Vladimir Putin???
Justice matters.
(8,879 posts)the Epstein Files pedotaco wants to see buried forever by his blondi bunch...
PatSeg
(50,944 posts)Republicans. He is a master at this sort of thing.
usonian
(20,505 posts)Nothing could possibly go wrong!
FakeNoose
(38,640 posts)
Vinca
(52,687 posts)Bayard
(26,974 posts)And see the final death throes of democracy here.
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(128,678 posts)Are you really that sad and lonely for acceptance?
wolfie001
(6,130 posts)That's about the only thing I have to say.
Brainfodder
(7,781 posts)

They put his base on dumber than dirt, that is not respectful.
They should be pissed, but too dumb?

Oeditpus Rex
(42,737 posts)What does the My Pillow's Energy Drink Guy say?
J_William_Ryan
(3,000 posts)agrees with a war criminal, dictator, and an enemy of democracy about elections comes as no surprise.
mdbl
(7,362 posts)twodogsbarking
(15,775 posts)It is ok to act stupid if you are pretending to be stupid but if you act stupid and you aren't pretending to be stupid then you are, well, stupid.
angryxyouth
(297 posts)According to a report by
Dr. Walter Mebane from the University of Michigan, who is among the worlds most renowned and respected experts on election forensics, ran the raw voter data for all of the counties in Pennsylvania and found malicious anomalies in all same day voting results. Mail in ballots showed no anomalies. Meaning they could not cheat on the mailing ballots.
Heres the report
https://websites.umich.edu/~wmebane/PA2024.pdf
There are a couple of organizations one is Smart Elections and the other is called the election truth alliance, (I know that its a terrible name, but theyre not PR people they are math, geeks), they have been doing forensic analysis of all the swing states and a couple of others, and they are finding the exact same anomalies that Dr. Mebane found in Pennsylvania.
I read a report and I wish that I could find it for you, that forensic analysis of the 2020 election showed similar anomalies but because of the high amount of mail in ballots due to Covid, the margins in the malicious anomalies were not great enough to compensate. So Joe Biden won.
BumRushDaShow
(160,177 posts)is that mail votes are "all Democrats" and "in person" are "all GOP", which is idiotic.
Since we started the "no-excuse absentee ballot" (as it is dubbed here in PA), somewhere around 1/3rd of the PA voters use that method and the rest, and that includes Democrats, vote "in person" (on election day since we have no "early in-person voting" ).
milestogo
(21,793 posts)
LPBBEAR
(572 posts)Fuck Trump and Fuck Putin.
LetMyPeopleVote
(169,809 posts)Republican officials want their partys voters to cast their ballots through the mail. The presidents rhetoric is undermining his partys message.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-crusade-mail-ballots-isnt-republicans-favors-rcna225844
Trump echoes comments he said Putin made to him last Friday: "Mail in ballots are corrupt. You can never have a real democracy w/ mail in ballots. We as a Republican Party are gonna do everything possible. We're gonna start with an executive order to end mail in ballots."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-08-18T17:44:45.317Z
.....To justify this radical and aggressive offensive against this form of voting, Trump is peddling a variety of stale lies. More importantly, hes claiming legal authority he does not have. But whether he realizes it or not, the president is also taking steps that wont do his party any favors. Politico reported that hes once again threatening to undermine a Republican electoral priority.
Republicans poured tens of millions of dollars last year into convincing their voters that casting ballots by mail was safe after Trump spent years bashing the practice and baselessly insisting it was rife with fraud. And it worked, with GOP voters closing or even reversing the mail voting gap with Democrats in several states. But now Trump is attacking mail voting again as he ratchets up his push to protect Republicans House majority in the midterms, scrambling a strategy Republicans effectively used to bank millions of votes in 2024.
Politico quoted Barrett Marson, a longtime GOP consultant in Arizona, who said voting by mail historically has been an advantage for Republicans in the Grand Canyon State and is a safe and secure way to vote and has been for a generation in Arizona. He added, however, that as the president sows distrust in the process and Democrats step up their game, the result is not good for Republicans.
It would be tough to blame GOP voters for feeling confused at this point. For years, Trump, the partys undisputed leader, has veered wildly between two opposite positions. On the one hand, hes falsely condemned mail-in voting as irredeemably corrupt and stupid. On the other hand, in between delivering those condemnations, the president has also encouraged rank-and-file GOP voters to cast their ballots through the mail.
At one point in 2023, Trump even told attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference that it was time for Republicans to change our thinking on mail-in voting, and soon after, he filmed a video for the Republican National Committee in support of the partys early voting initiative.
In Texas, vote by mail is a key part of the GOP GOTV efforts. A larger percentage of GOP voters are older and vote by mail. trump may be hurting GOP GOTV efforts
Cha
(314,354 posts)think that's a selling point.