🧩 BND Motif Index · M289
Mail in fraud
Mail-in ballots open the door to fraud, so votes should be cast in person.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Horserace🗂️ Elections
- 6claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 4right shows it came up on
- 2claims retold online
- 2fact-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: 🧩 Voter fraud
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
🎙️ No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"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, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-27 “A video by @M.A.Rothman on X shows that California's ballot envelopes have a hole that can reveal how a person voted.” 🔎 Lead Stories
- 2026-10-26 “Hundreds of thousands of noncitizens and dead people are listed and active on the voter rolls, and yet we still have elections with no voter ID, no proof of citizenship and tens of millions of ballots floating aimlessly through the mail.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-23 “Democrats use mass mail-in ballots to include deceased people, students, and illegal aliens to rig elections.”
🎙️ The Benny Show 🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-22 “Democrats are switching from mail-in voting to in-person early voting because they fear Donald Trump is tampering with the mail.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show 🎙️ No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen - 2026-10-07 “Trump encourages mail-in voting while claiming it is full of fraud, creating a contradiction that voters must weigh.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “Ballots should be submitted through drop boxes or in person rather than relying on the postal service due to concerns about mail delays and potential fraud.” 🧶 people online
M289 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works