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BumRushDaShow

(160,177 posts)
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 10:55 AM Aug 16

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/



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Trump says Putin agrees with him US should not have mail-in voting (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 16 OP
Like having Jeffrey Dahmer approve of your menu. no_hypocrisy Aug 16 #1
WTF. Russia/Putin has never had an honest election. And who the hell cares what Putin thinks... brush Aug 16 #2
Putin's just telling idiot boy how else to rig elections... slightlv Aug 16 #19
And we should care what Putin says about elections because......? cab67 Aug 16 #3
There are NO words MLWR Aug 16 #4
Well, that settles it then. ananda Aug 16 #5
If this were from Borowitz, it would be amusing. DavidDvorkin Aug 16 #6
Yeah? Well fuck Puting and fuck Trump. Autumn Aug 16 #7
OK, now I am convinced question everything Aug 16 #8
Too hard to steal elections when you have paper ballots. OMGWTF Aug 16 #9
Am I wrong in thinking popsdenver Aug 16 #21
Yes, and that's why competent election boards Retrograde Aug 16 #29
Well, just like the internet, if Pooty-Poot says it, it must be true. generalbetrayus Aug 16 #10
Why Were They Discussing This?? Mr.Bee Aug 16 #11
Yeah, you do have to wonder EndlessWire Aug 16 #24
Seriously? PatSeg Aug 16 #12
Well, since that murderous terrorist has copies and tapes of... Justice matters. Aug 16 #13
Just imagine the dirt that Putin has on so many PatSeg Aug 16 #30
VOTE OVER THE INTERNET. usonian Aug 16 #14
Here's an idea, how about we send our ballots to Russia and let Pootie count 'em? FakeNoose Aug 16 #15
Says the king who mails his ballot in every election. Vinca Aug 16 #16
Add Vlad's advice to Elon's hackers, Bayard Aug 16 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author Bayard Aug 16 #18
And why should Americans care what a dictator has to say about elections Donny? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 16 #20
Stupid, fat, nasty jackass wolfie001 Aug 16 #22
Crooked guys trying to make the safe way that doesn't allow for easy internet tampering seem bad? Brainfodder Aug 16 #23
That's certainly a ringing endorsement, all right Oeditpus Rex Aug 16 #25
That Trump J_William_Ryan Aug 16 #26
No one gives a shit what Putin thinks. mdbl Aug 16 #27
If I hear putin say it I will believe he said it. twodogsbarking Aug 16 #28
There's a reason they don't like mail in ballots angryxyouth Aug 16 #31
The one myth that the GOP keeps perrpetuating though BumRushDaShow Aug 16 #32
WHO THE FUCK CARES WHAT PUTIN THINKS ABOUT ANYTHING? milestogo Aug 16 #33
Like I give a shit what Putin thinks. LPBBEAR Aug 16 #34
MaddowBlog-Trump's crusade against mail-in ballots isn't doing Republicans any favors LetMyPeopleVote Aug 19 #35
Stupid Traitor Despot. Only Idiots Cha Aug 19 #36
 

brush

(61,033 posts)
2. WTF. Russia/Putin has never had an honest election. And who the hell cares what Putin thinks...
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 11:01 AM
Aug 16

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)
19. Putin's just telling idiot boy how else to rig elections...
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 12:43 PM
Aug 16

it's worked for putin, even to the point of making our own country a copycat version of russia's police state!

MLWR

(535 posts)
4. There are NO words
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 11:08 AM
Aug 16

to describe how little I care about what a war criminal thinks* of mail-in voting.

OMGWTF

(4,903 posts)
9. Too hard to steal elections when you have paper ballots.
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 11:33 AM
Aug 16

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.

Retrograde

(11,280 posts)
29. Yes, and that's why competent election boards
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 06:24 PM
Aug 16

run tests before the ballots are mailed and do hand checks on random ballots to make sure the process works correctly.I’ve been voting by mail exclusively since 2003 and I love it

EndlessWire

(8,103 posts)
24. Yeah, you do have to wonder
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 02:32 PM
Aug 16

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.

Justice matters.

(8,879 posts)
13. Well, since that murderous terrorist has copies and tapes of...
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 11:48 AM
Aug 16

the Epstein Files pedotaco wants to see buried forever by his blondi bunch...

PatSeg

(50,944 posts)
30. Just imagine the dirt that Putin has on so many
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 06:38 PM
Aug 16

Republicans. He is a master at this sort of thing.

Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(128,678 posts)
20. And why should Americans care what a dictator has to say about elections Donny?
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 12:59 PM
Aug 16

Are you really that sad and lonely for acceptance?

Brainfodder

(7,781 posts)
23. Crooked guys trying to make the safe way that doesn't allow for easy internet tampering seem bad?
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 01:52 PM
Aug 16
SUPER OBVIOUS ULTERIOR MOTIVE ALERT!!!

They put his base on dumber than dirt, that is not respectful.

They should be pissed, but too dumb?

Oeditpus Rex

(42,737 posts)
25. That's certainly a ringing endorsement, all right
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 02:43 PM
Aug 16

What does the My Pillow's Energy Drink Guy say?

J_William_Ryan

(3,000 posts)
26. That Trump
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 02:52 PM
Aug 16

agrees with a war criminal, dictator, and an enemy of democracy about elections comes as no surprise.

twodogsbarking

(15,775 posts)
28. If I hear putin say it I will believe he said it.
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 06:13 PM
Aug 16

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)
31. There's a reason they don't like mail in ballots
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 07:10 PM
Aug 16

According to a report by  
Dr. Walter Mebane from the University of Michigan, who is among the world’s 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.
Here’s 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 it’s a terrible name, but they’re 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)
32. The one myth that the GOP keeps perrpetuating though
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 07:37 PM
Aug 16

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" ).

LetMyPeopleVote

(169,809 posts)
35. MaddowBlog-Trump's crusade against mail-in ballots isn't doing Republicans any favors
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 04:12 PM
Aug 19

Republican officials want their party’s voters to cast their ballots through the mail. The president’s rhetoric is undermining his party’s message.



https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-crusade-mail-ballots-isnt-republicans-favors-rcna225844

Then Trump hosted an Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during which the Republican became rather animated — but not about the largest war in Europe since World War II. Rather, the American president got worked up talking about how much he hates when Americans vote by casting ballots through the mail.

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, he’s claiming legal authority he does not have. But whether he realizes it or not, the president is also taking steps that won’t do his party any favors. Politico reported that he’s “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 party’s undisputed leader, has veered wildly between two opposite positions. On the one hand, he’s 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 party’s 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
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