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Fake voting instructions

An official-looking notice gives voters false instructions, the wrong day, a moved polling place, a vote by text, the old trick for keeping the other side's voters home.

πŸ“œ PlotsπŸ—‚οΈ ElectionsπŸ—‚οΈ Political manipulation

⚠️ 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.

πŸͺœ Its family

what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it

πŸͺœ rests on 🧩 Voter suppression

πŸ”— goes with: 🧩 Don't bother voting

🧢 Its claims

what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)

Fact-checked 2

claims a fact-checker examined: the verdict is theirs, behind the link

  • 2026-11-09 β€œThe FBI posted that Election Day is Wednesday.” πŸ”Ž Snopes
  • 2026-11-09 β€œThe official FBI New Haven X account posted that Election Day is Wednesday.” πŸ”Ž Lead Stories

M1730 Β· first seen 2026-11-09 Β· what this is Β· how the index works