DISINFO: Vladimir Putin was democratically elected unlike Joe Biden
SUMMARY
Unlike Biden, Putin was legitimately elected. Now Russia cannot continue to limit itself within the framework of diplomatic rules, it must say out loud what everyone thinks. Biden was indeed fraudulently elected. There is a great deal of doubt about how the US election went.
RESPONSE
A recurrent narrative about the high democratic standards in Russia vs the low democratic standards in the West. In this case, it is alleged that Vladimir Putin is a legitimate president while Joe Biden is not.
The OSCE observed the Presidential Election of 18 March 2018 in the Russian Federation and concluded that the elections "took place in an overly controlled legal and political environment marked by continued pressure on critical voices, while the Central Election Commission (CEC) administered the election efficiently and openly."
Six cases of denial to proceed with the signature collection were unsuccessfully challenged in the Supreme Court, including by opposition activist Alexei Navalny.
The use of Administrative Resources to support Vladimir Putin candidacy against others was not avoided.
The results also raised concerns of massive fraud (about 10 million ballots out of 73,629,581 expressed votes). The interview of Physicist Sergei Shpilkin is interesting to understand the phenomenon of “Churov’s saw” observed in Russian elections when ballot-stuffing takes place.
There is no evidence that the US 2020 presidential elections were fraudulent. Allegations of electoral fraud have been dismissed more than 60 times by different US courts and judges, both Republican and Democrats, due to lack of any significant evidence, including the Supreme Court on two occasions.
There have been extensive investigations about possible fraud which have led to the conclusion that the November 3rd elections were “the most secure election in the history of the United States” and “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised”.
Additionally, president Joe Biden is often criticized for not taking part in televised debates, however, he did debate with Donald Trump before the 2020 election (On 30 September and 23 October). Russian president Vladimir Putin never takes part himself in electoral debates and always sends other people to represent him against election competitors.
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