🧩 BND Motif Index · M174
Rigged election
The election was stolen: the vote was rigged and the real result is being hidden.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Elections🗂️ Conspiracy🗂️ Political manipulation
- 31claims filed under it
- 4left shows it came up on
- 3center shows it came up on
- 10right shows it came up on
- 5claims retold online
- 4fact-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
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Mail in fraud 🧩 Voter fraud 🧩 Voter suppression 🧩 They're going to steal it 🧩 Black box voting
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Ballot security 🧩 Broken electoral math 🧩 Election meddling
🎙️ 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)
- 📰 Brazil holds presidential election with Lula and Bolsonaro in runoff 2026-10-03 to 2026-10-07
- 📰 U.S. grants visas to Flavio Bolsonaro and family after Brazil election loss 2026-10-24 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 believes the Brazilian election looked corrupt and rigged.”
🎙️ The Megyn Kelly Show 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-26 “Voting machines in Cook County are rigged to discourage voters from selecting Republican judicial candidates.” 🔎 NewsGuard Reality Check
- 2026-10-26 “The Brazilian election was absolutely stolen from the citizens of Brazil.”
🎙️ Louder with Crowder 🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-26 “The 2020 elections were stolen.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 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 “A video shows votes being discounted for Flávio Bolsonaro in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, proving fraud.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-25 “Donald Trump is peddling false claims about election fraud to undermine Democratic officials.”
🎙️ Pod Save America 🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 🎙️ 1A (WAMU/NPR) 🎙️ Forum (KQED) - 2026-10-24 “Donald Trump claims he has the right to run for a third term because the 2020 election was rigged.” 🧶 people online
- 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 “Voting machines in several states are reverting Democratic votes to Republican votes.”
🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ Timcast IRL (podcast) 🎙️ 1A (WAMU/NPR) - 2026-10-23 “The 2020 election was rigged.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show 🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 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
- 2026-10-20 “If a poll worker writes anything on your ballot, such as a letter, checkmark, or star, your ballot will be disqualified.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-16 “Ballots with any written markings from poll workers will be disqualified.” 🔎 NewsGuard Reality Check
- 2026-10-16 “If a poll worker writes anything on your ballot before you put it in the voting machine, your ballot will be disqualified.” 🔎 PolitiFact
- 2026-10-15 “The Maricopa County Board of Elections issued an apology to President Trump, claiming that local officials presented evidence that then Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and then Speaker of the Arizona House Rusty Bowers personally ordered the destruction of tens of thousands of Trump mail-in ballots and the counting of tens of thousands of votes cast by people” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-14 “Videos show ballot fraud in Germany where votes for the AfD party were destroyed.” 🔎 NewsGuard Reality Check
- 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
- 2026-10-09 “President Donald Trump wrote 'Every Republican vote counts as 3 votes!' because of Elon Musk.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-09 “Trump is focusing too much on unsubstantiated election fraud claims” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-10-08 “The Trump administration is investigating nonprofit organizations that help people register to vote, suspecting them of illegally registering noncitizens.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-08 “Republican polls are overly optimistic and biased, suggesting a potential 'miss' in the election cycle due to internal polling inaccuracies and voter behavior.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-08 “Democrats recruited a decoy candidate to confuse voters and rig the election for Peltola.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-05 “the midterms were rigged in Alabama” 🔎 NewsGuard Reality Check
- 2026-10-05 “There were efforts to suppress the vote in areas that favor Lula.”
🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show - 2026-10-05 “Lula won the previous election through questionable means and a technicality.”
🎙️ The Benny Show 🎙️ Louder with Crowder 🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ PBD Podcast (podcast) 🎙️ BBC Global News Podcast - 2026-10-04 “Democrats are changing voting and counting rules to maintain power.”
🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 2026-09-16 “There was voter fraud in the November 2026 elections.” 🔎 NewsGuard Reality Check
M174 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works