π§© BND Motif Index Β· M1730
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.
π PlotsποΈ ElectionsποΈ Political manipulation
- 2claims filed under it
- 2fact-checkers
β οΈ 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.
πͺ Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
πͺ rests on π§© Voter suppression
π goes with: π§© Don't bother voting
π§Ά 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 βThe FBI posted that Election Day is Wednesday.β π Snopes
- 2026-11-09 βThe official FBI New Haven X account posted that Election Day is Wednesday.β π Lead Stories
M1730 Β· first seen 2026-11-09 Β· what this is Β· how the index works