 US elections falsified Putin elections in Russia's new regions were honest and transparent because people showed up to vote in person unlike the voting by mail in the US Russian president Vladimir Putin said speaking at a meeting with municipal educators in Moscow the Russian president brought up the 2020 American presidential election as an example of what democracy should not look like it's probably possible to falsify anything just like the previous elections in the US were falsified through voting by mail well it's clear what voting by mail is they bought ballots for $10 wrote them in and without any supervision from observers tossed them into mailboxes and there you go Putin said his observation came in response to a question about the voting in person and Zaporose regions and the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics for formerly Ukrainian territories that joined Russia in 2022 no one forced people there to show up at the polls or barred them from doing so they simply voted with their feet Putin said what is this if not democracy democracy is when people expressed their will the Russian president said