🧩 BND Motif Index · M607
Broken electoral math
The voting system turns votes into power unfairly, so results don't reflect what people actually chose.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Who rules🗂️ Elections
- 7claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 2right shows it came up on
- 4claims retold online
⚠️ 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: 🧩 Wasted vote 🧩 Picking their voters 🧩 Splitting the vote
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Rigged election
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 1
"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)
- 📰 Supreme Court justice criticizes conservative majority's impact on democracy 2026-10-21 to 2026-10-23
- 📰 UK Green Party adopts motion labeling Zionism as racism 2026-10-04
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “The Supreme Court's decisions allow partisan gerrymandering that harms fair representation.”
🎙️ Today, Explained - 2026-10-23 “Republicans are redrawing congressional maps to carve up Black districts and gain a conservative advantage.”
🎙️ The Daily (NYT) - 2026-10-23 “Alaska's ranked choice voting system is designed to elect Democrats.”
🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-22 “Justice Elena Kagan criticized the Supreme Court's conservative majority for undermining democracy through rulings on voting rights and campaign finance.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-14 “The Electoral College is an obsolete system that should be replaced by the popular vote.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-12 “Britain's Greens are not really left wing, can't win under first past the post, and their 'Zionism is racism' vote is hateful.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-06 “Tom Morello's decision not to vote for Kamala Harris had no impact on the election because California's electoral votes were already secured.” 🧶 people online
M607 · first seen 2026-10-07 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works