🧩 BND Motif Index · M1737
Vote flipping
Voting machines are said to switch or steer votes as people cast them, the touchscreen jumping to the other candidate or nudging the voter away, and a voter's video or one glitch is offered as proof the machines are rigged.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Elections🗂️ Conspiracy
- 10claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
- 5fact-checkers
⚠️ 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
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Black box voting
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (1 left-leaning, 1 center, 1 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
- right-leaning
"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.
🧶 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)
Told on the left 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-10-23 “Voting machines in several states are reverting Democratic votes to Republican votes.” 3
Fact-checked 9
claims a fact-checker examined: the verdict is theirs, behind the link
- 2026-11-03 “A video shows a voting machine switching a vote to a Republican.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-28 “Electronic voting machines are changing Democratic votes to Republican votes.” 🔎 FactCheck.org
- 2026-10-27 “A voting machine in Cook County displayed a message telling a voter that their chosen candidate was not a popular choice, proving the election is rigged.” 🔎 PolitiFact
- 2026-10-26 “Voting machines in Cook County are rigged to discourage voters from selecting Republican judicial candidates.” 🔎 NewsGuard Reality Check
- 2026-10-23 “Voting machines in Texas, Florida, Tennessee, and Ohio are switching Democratic votes to Republican votes unless the voter persists by pressing several times.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-23 “Voting machines across the country are changing votes.” 🔎 Snopes
- 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 “Electronic voting machines will not let voters select the Republican candidate they want to vote for and automatically select the Democrat candidate instead, creating a national emergency.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-22 “Early voters' ballots are being switched after they vote in states including Florida, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.” 🔎 Lead Stories
M1737 · first seen 2026-11-09 · last 2026-11-10 · what this is · how the index works