Did a video of a social media user claiming to be about to cast a ballot for Zohran Mamdani "six or seven times" in the 2025 New York City mayoral election capture a self-incriminating admission of voter fraud? No, that's not true: The clip was part of a viral trend in which people would post videos of themselves saying "six seven" in response to a wide range of situations. The phrase "six seven" does not have one specific meaning, but has become part of absurdist meme culture.
The claim appeared in a video (archived here) published on TikTok on October 29, 2025. In it, a person walking in the street was seen saying:
I'm here in New York about to illegally vote for Zoran Mamdani six times.
The caption continued:
Or seven times. #fyp #zohranmamdani #zohran #nyc
This is what the video looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at tiktok.com/@playintrafficband)
The video is embedded below:
@playintrafficband Or seven times #fyp #zohranmamdani #zohran #nyc ♬ original sound - Play In Traffic | Band
The video, however, was not a self-incriminating admission of voter fraud - it was a spin on a popular internet meme.
The clip reviewed in this fact check was published on the next day after Dictionary.com had named the word of the year (archived here), which, in 2025, happened to be a combination of two numbers: 6 7. Pronounced as "six-seven", that expression originated from a song "Doot Doot (6 7)" (archived here) by rapper Skrilla and doesn't have a clearly defined meaning (archived here).
The person in the video, punk-influenced singer Alex Iovino from the band Play in Traffic, repeats the "six or seven" spoof in another video, in which he "admits" to registering day laborers found at Home Depot to illegally vote.
A commenter on that video wrote:
i cannot believe people are actually believing this 😭😭 you have people on twt freaking the fuck out
To which the poster replied:
I know almost 600 or 700 of them
The news sections of the websites of the New York State Board of Election (archived here) and the Division of Election Law Enforcement (archived here) showed no press releases about anyone voting "six or seven times".
Searches on Google News and Yahoo News (archived here) yielded no credible reports about it, either.
