🧩 BND Motif Index · M1000
They're going to steal it
The side in power is said to be readying to rig the coming election, seizing machines, purging rolls, hacking the count, and every step is read as a rehearsal.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Elections🗂️ Conspiracy
- 31claims filed under it
- 10left shows it came up on
- 3center shows it came up on
- 6right shows it came up on
- 11claims retold online
- 1fact-checker
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Rigged election
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Too big to rig
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 DOJ sues California over 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters 2026-10-14 to 2026-10-19
- 📰 U.S. grants visas to Flavio Bolsonaro and family after Brazil election loss 2026-10-24 to 2026-10-28
- 📰 Democrats sue Trump administration over voter roll efforts 2026-10-22
- 📰 DOJ could block election certification in doomsday scenario 2026-10-22 to 2026-10-24
- 📰 Elon Musk donates over $276 million to GOP in midterms 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-15
- 📰 Alaska judge fast-tracks DOJ lawsuit over Senate election certification 2026-10-23 to 2026-10-28
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-27 “Donald Trump is causing harm to the GOP and may attempt to rig the midterm elections.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-26 “Lula manipulated the Brazilian election by requesting extended polling hours in specific areas to win.”
🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show 🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-26 “The Department of Justice lawsuit in Alaska is a precursor to attempts to overturn elections.”
🎙️ To the Contrary with Charlie Sykes 🎙️ Strict Scrutiny 🎙️ NPR Politics Podcast - 2026-10-26 “The Trump administration is attempting to intervene in state-administered elections through various legal and administrative schemes.”
🎙️ Pod Save America 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) - 2026-10-25 “Eric Holder says the 'imposter' Dan Sullivan is on the ballot legitimately by the Alaska courts' ruling, so his presence is no basis for refusing to certify the result.”
🎙️ Pod Save America - 2026-10-25 “The Speaker of the House could trigger a constitutional crisis by replacing the clerk and refusing to seat Congress.”
🎙️ The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC) - 2026-10-25 “The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to block Alaska from certifying its Senate election unless the Republican candidate wins.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-25 “The Justice Department is demanding California counties segregate ballots from suspected noncitizen voters to root out voter fraud.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-25 “Trump tries to exploit the time between ballot casting and results to fuel conspiracy theories.”
🎙️ Today, Explained 🎙️ Pod Save America - 2026-10-25 “Donald Trump and his administration are attempting to subvert midterm elections through thuggish intimidation of election officials and voters.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ Forum (KQED) 🎙️ Today, Explained 🎙️ Pod Save America 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-24 “Donald Trump's attempts to interfere with the midterm elections could cause lasting damage to the U.S. economy.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-24 “Trump's Department of Justice is trying to block the certification of midterm election results in Alaska.”
🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show 🎙️ The Bulwark Podcast - 2026-10-24 “Trump's administration is skipping international election observers for the 2026 midterms because he rejects independent scrutiny.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-24 “The Department of Justice is unlawfully attempting to obtain unredacted voter files from states.”
🎙️ Forum (KQED) 🎙️ Today, Explained - 2026-10-23 “The upcoming midterm elections are likely to be stolen, manipulated, or undermined by Republicans and Donald Trump.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-23 “Attorney General Todd Blanche suggested the Justice Department might improperly interfere in elections if circumstances require it.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-23 “A TikTok video shows a woman in Cook County, Illinois, receiving a notice from a voting machine that said, 'People are not typically voting for this person,' when she attempted to choose a Republican judicial candidate.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-22 “Donald Trump attempted to take control of the USPS to disenfranchise mail-in voters.”
🎙️ Today, Explained 🎙️ Surrounded (Jubilee) 🎙️ Forum (KQED) - 2026-10-22 “Democrats are suing the Trump administration for allegedly using intimidation and unlawful pressure to interfere with the midterm elections.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-22 “The shared interests of Donald Trump and Elon Musk pose a risk to the midterm elections.”
🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) - 2026-10-21 “Trump administration appointees ordered a cybersecurity agency to secretly acquire and hack a voting machine.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-21 “U.S. officials are privately advising states to prepare for potential Trump election meddling.”
🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC) - 2026-10-20 “Trump aides requested that CISA secretly hack a voting machine to exploit flaws rather than fix them.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-20 “The Trump DOJ is suing California over allegedly ineligible voters to seize ballots.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ The Majority Report (podcast) 🎙️ Fox News Rundown - 2026-10-20 “The Trump administration is attempting to prevent people from voting and block them from voting.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-19 “Trump supporters are urging Trump to declare martial law for the midterms.”
🎙️ Timcast IRL (podcast) 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) - 2026-10-13 “Georgia's Republican-led election board is removing party labels from ballots to trick voters into choosing Republicans by name recognition.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-11 “Banning international election observers is a sign that a government intends to cheat in an election.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-09 “Trump and Tina Peters plan to seize ballots nationwide to rig election results.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “Trump thanked Elon Musk for making every Republican vote count 3 times.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-04 “Democrats are changing voting and counting rules to maintain power.”
🎙️ The Mark Levin Show
M1000 · first seen 2026-10-20 · last 2026-10-28 · what this is · how the index works