🧩 BND Motif Index · M886
Poison pill
A rival measure is written to cancel the one voters want, its fine print nullifying the other if both pass, and tellers warn that voters are being tricked into killing what they support.
📜 Plots🗂️ Elections🗂️ Money and power
- 5claims filed under it
- 5claims 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.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Meta and Zuckerberg reach deal to keep him in California amid billionaire tax threat 2026-10-22 to 2026-10-25
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-26 “Voters should pass Proposition 40 and reject Propositions 41 and 42 because billionaires are using the latter to nullify the billionaire tax.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-23 “California voters should pass Proposition 40 to tax billionaires and reject Propositions 41 and 42.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-18 “Prop 40 is a wealth tax on billionaires, while billionaires are spending millions to confuse voters and protect their wealth through Props 41 and 42.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-12 “Newsom and his billionaire donors back ballot measures written to cancel California's wealth tax.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “California voters are being asked to approve a one-time tax on billionaires through Proposition 40, while other propositions (41 and 42) are claimed to invalidate or undermine it.” 🧶 people online
M886 · first seen 2026-10-12 · last 2026-10-26 · what this is · how the index works