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.”

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    I thought they were there to discuss the Ukraine War? How did they get to mail in ballots?

    Also, why the fuck would the US care what Putin thinks of how the US elections are run?

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    This means we absolutely SHOULD have mail-in voting. Basically take anything putin and drump say and do the opposite and you’ll be correct.

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      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.

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    I don’t give a fuck what Putin, or Trump for that matter, says. Fuck them both. They’re lying as usual.

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    “See this dictator agrees with me…”

    We don’t give a fuck what Putin says! He doesn’t live here! He’s not our president, fuck off!

    I really wish that orange turd would just kick the bucket already.

    Release the Epstein files.

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    My mommy let me visit my friend Vlad and were were talkin’, ya know. And he said, you know what? I agree with you that mail-in voting is bad. And I said, yeah, right? See I know my friends agree with me. I’m going to go back and tell mommy what my friend Vlad said and say “See, mommy, even Vlad agrees!”

    Fucking toddler child loser leader of MAGA losers. WTF is wrong with these people?

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      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.

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    “You shouldn’t have mail in voting, because we can’t hack mail. So ….get rid of it”

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    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.

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      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.