🧩 BND Motif Index · M1060
Picking their voters
Politicians are said to pick their voters instead of the voters picking them: maps redrawn mid-decade to win seats before a vote is cast, the courts clearing the way, and the other side answering with maps of its own, as Texas redrew for Trump in 2025 and California answered with Proposition 50.
📜 Plots🗂️ Elections🗂️ The Republic🗂️ Political manipulation
- 3claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 2right shows it came up on
- 1claim 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
🪜 rests on 🧩 Broken electoral math
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 1
🐘 right 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)
- 📰 Supreme Court justice criticizes conservative majority's impact on democracy 2026-10-21 to 2026-10-23
🧶 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 - 2026-10-24 “Redistricting benefited Republicans and helped them gain seats.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show 🎙️ The Daily (NYT) 🎙️ Fox News Rundown - 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
M1060 · first seen 2026-10-24 · last 2026-10-25 · what this is · how the index works