🧩 BND Motif Index · M875
Voter suppression
One side's voters are kept from the polls, by purges, closed polling places, long lines and intimidation, so the count is won before it starts.
- 24claims filed under it
- 5left shows it came up on
- 2center shows it came up on
- 3right shows it came up on
- 12claims retold online
- 1fact-checker
⚠️ 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:
- 🧩 Ballot security Ballot security answers Voter suppression
⏱️ both first told the same day (2026-10-05) - 🧩 Importing voters mirror: votes added by bringing people in, or taken by keeping people out
⏱️ told here 2 days after its answer (2026-10-03 → 2026-10-05) - 🧩 Voter fraud Voter suppression answers Voter fraud
⏱️ told here 19 days after its answer (2026-09-16 → 2026-10-05)
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 5
🎙️ No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen 🎙️ Pod Save America 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ The Majority Report (podcast) 🎙️ Today, Explained
⚖️ 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
- 📰 DOJ charges 28 noncitizens in California voter fraud case 2026-10-19 to 2026-10-22
- 📰 Supreme Court allows New Hampshire to ban student IDs for voting 2026-10-23 to 2026-10-25
- 📰 DOJ warns California election officials of legal risks for counting suspected noncitizen ballots 2026-10-18
- 📰 El-Sayed confronts fox host over Muslim Brotherhood questions during interview 2026-10-22 to 2026-10-25
- 📰 ICE agents shoot man in New York City 2026-10-08 to 2026-10-12
- 📰 Judge questions doj's claims of noncitizens on California voter rolls 2026-10-24 to 2026-10-28
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-27 “The Trump administration is using unproven claims of noncitizen voting to attempt to meddle in and sideline ballots in California and Washington.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-27 “Bolsonaro's allies attempted to rig the election by shutting down public transportation to suppress votes.”
🎙️ Breaking Points 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show - 2026-10-25 “The Justice Department is demanding California counties segregate ballots from suspected noncitizen voters to root out voter fraud.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-25 “A Bush-appointed judge OK'd North Carolina's bid to invalidate mail-in ballots on minor technicalities, such as an unsealed inner envelope.”
🎙️ The Majority Report (podcast) - 2026-10-25 “Efforts to flag non-citizen voters are designed to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election system.”
🎙️ The Michael Berry Show 🎙️ Pod Save America - 2026-10-24 “The Supreme Court allowed New Hampshire to bar student IDs from being used as voter identification.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-24 “Republicans in North Carolina pulled a last-minute stunt to suppress the vote.”
🎙️ No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen - 2026-10-23 “The Supreme Court allowed New Hampshire to block students from using their IDs to vote.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-23 “Voting machines in Texas, Florida, Tennessee, and Ohio are switching Democratic votes to Republican votes unless the voter persists by pressing several times.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-23 “Republicans have championed voter ID policies across the country.”
🎙️ Forum (KQED) - 2026-10-23 “DHS field operations use flawed data to target legal voters and intimidate them.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ Forum (KQED) 🎙️ Pod Save America - 2026-10-22 “Mike Rogers wants to use retired or off-duty police officers as poll watchers to intimidate voters in Detroit.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-22 “Donald Trump attempted to take control of the USPS to disenfranchise mail-in voters.”
🎙️ Today, Explained 🎙️ Surrounded (Jubilee) 🎙️ Forum (KQED) - 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 - 2026-10-20 “The Trump administration is attempting to prevent people from voting and block them from voting.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 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 - 2026-10-20 “The Trump administration's arrests of noncitizen voters in California are a scare tactic to intimidate voters before the midterms, not about election fraud.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-19 “The Trump DOJ is suing California to block the counting of ballots from suspected noncitizens.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-18 “Students from North Carolina A&T and UNC Greensboro marched to vote after their campus polling sites were removed.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-18 “The Trump administration is threatening to jail California election officials over unproven claims about noncitizen voters.” 🧶 people online
- 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
- 2026-10-09 “ICE's 45-day blitz in California, timed with mail ballots, is meant to scare voters away from the polls.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “There were efforts to suppress the vote in areas that favor Lula.”
🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show
M875 · first seen 2026-10-11 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works