🧩 BND Motif Index · M806
Voter fraud
The vote is said to be corrupted from within, noncitizens registered, the dead voting, ballots harvested, and the hunt for the fraud becomes a campaign of its own.
- 34claims filed under it
- 4left shows it came up on
- 2center shows it came up on
- 9right shows it came up on
- 8claims retold online
- 3fact-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
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Solution in search of a problem the counter: the fraud called too rare to matter
⏱️ answered 34 days after this was first told here (2026-09-16 → 2026-10-20) - 🧩 Voter suppression Voter suppression answers Voter fraud
⏱️ answered 19 days after this was first told here (2026-09-16 → 2026-10-05)
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Importing voters 🧩 Mail in fraud
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 4
🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 🎙️ Pod Save America 🎙️ Strict Scrutiny 🎙️ The Majority Report (podcast)
⚖️ center 2
"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)
- 📰 DOJ sues California over 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters 2026-10-14 to 2026-10-19
- 📰 Federal agents conduct door-to-door checks for noncitizen voters 2026-10-21 to 2026-10-23
- 📰 DOJ charges 28 noncitizens in California voter fraud case 2026-10-19 to 2026-10-22
- 📰 Appeals court rejects DOJ's bid to set aside California mail ballots 2026-10-26 to 2026-10-28
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-26 “A federal appeals court expressed skepticism toward the Trump administration's lawsuit seeking to set aside 20,000 California mail-in ballots suspected of being sent to noncitizens.” 🧶 people online
- 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
- 2026-10-26 “The DOJ is attempting to manufacture evidence by charging non-citizens who claim they did not register to vote.”
🎙️ Strict Scrutiny 🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show 🎙️ Pod Save America - 2026-10-26 “Democrats do not want secure elections.”
🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Benny Show - 2026-10-25 “The Justice Department is demanding California counties segregate ballots from suspected noncitizen voters to root out voter fraud.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-24 “Non-citizens are voting in federal elections in large numbers.”
🎙️ Left, Right & Center 🎙️ The Michael Berry Show - 2026-10-23 “Non-citizens are being mailed ballots in California and other states.”
🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz 🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 2026-10-23 “California election officials cannot verify if voters are citizens, allowing illegal aliens to vote.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words - 2026-10-23 “Republicans have championed voter ID policies across the country.”
🎙️ Forum (KQED) - 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 - 2026-10-23 “Federal investigators found 20,000 non-citizens on California voter rolls.”
🎙️ The Benny Show 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show 🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-22 “Ballots are being lost in fires.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-22 “America lacks a basic database to verify if a person is a U.S. citizen.”
🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz - 2026-10-22 “States lack a process to confirm the citizenship or eligibility of voters.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-22 “The Trump administration is making the most assertive effort in decades to tighten election rules.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-21 “The Justice Department's list of suspected noncitizen voters in California is unreliable and an attempt to disenfranchise citizens.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-21 “The Trump administration's Justice Department sued California for sending ballots to non-citizens.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ The Majority Report (podcast) 🎙️ Fox News Rundown - 2026-10-21 “Non-citizens are able to register and vote repeatedly across multiple election cycles in California.”
🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz 🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show - 2026-10-21 “Los Angeles County officials have no way to verify the citizenship of voters.”
🎙️ The Benny Show - 2026-10-20 “Election officials may be deliberately looking the other way while illegal immigrants vote.”
🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz - 2026-10-20 “The Trump DOJ is suing California over allegedly ineligible voters to seize ballots.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ The Majority Report (podcast) 🎙️ Fox News Rundown - 2026-10-19 “The Trump DOJ is suing California to block the counting of ballots from suspected noncitizens.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-17 “The DOJ is suing California to block the counting of ballots from suspected noncitizen voters.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-16 “The Justice Department is suing California to stop the counting of ballots from alleged noncitizen voters.” 🧶 people online
- 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 DOJ gave California election officials a list of suspected noncitizen voters and an ultimatum to segregate their ballots or face legal action.” 🧶 people online
- 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
- 2026-10-15 “Ballots are being intentionally burned to tamper with elections.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-13 “If poll workers write anything on your ballot, such as a letter, checkmark, or star, your ballot will be disqualified.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-11 “A meme shared on social media platforms including Facebook, X, Reddit, and Threads alleges that 'in the 2020 election, 163 Democrats used this one address to cast a vote for Joe Biden,' accompanied by a photo of a modest home in rural Oklahoma.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-09 “The investigative arm of ICE is collecting massive amounts of voter information and examining voter registration organizations.”
🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) - 2026-10-08 “The Trump administration is investigating nonprofit organizations that help people register to vote, suspecting them of illegally registering noncitizens.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-09-16 “There was voter fraud in the November 2026 elections.” 🔎 NewsGuard Reality Check
M806 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works