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California lawmakers vote to limit when local election officials can count ballots by hand

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Source Las Vegas Sun bias rating
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Associated Press, Christina A. Cassidy, Adam Beam
Published Sep 09, 2023
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Reliability Score Analysis

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Policy Leaning Analysis

This article includes the following sentiments, providing an average bias score of 10% Conservative:

  • 1 negative sentiment for Government Interference

Politician Portrayal Analysis:

This article includes the following Politician Portrayal sentiments, providing an average sentiment of 68% Negative and bias score of -8% Liberal:

2 negative sentiments and 2 positive sentiments for Gavin Newsom
2 negative sentiments for Donald Trump
2 negative sentiments for Joe Biden

Policies:

Government Interference

Politicians:

Gavin Newsom
Donald Trump
Joe Biden

Sentiments

  •   Conservative
14% Darling Allen said in an email she hopes Newsom signs it, calling it a "commonsense protection for all California voters."
10% Should Newsom sign the bill, County Clerk Cathy Darling Allen said the county has the equipment it needs to tabulate votes in upcoming elections."
-2% "nnThe bill now heads to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.nn"
-6% "nnShasta County Board of Supervisors chair Patrick Henry Jones said Friday the county would sue to block the bill should Newsom sign it."
-18% Trump and his allies have been pushing county officials across the country to embrace hand counts amid conspiracy theories surrounding voting equipment, particularly those ..."
-22% Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox News following the 2020 presidential election, alleging the news agency damaged its reputation by amplifying conspiracy theories that the ..."
-26% "County supervisors said there was a loss of public confidence in the machines from Dominion Voting Systems, a company at the center of discredited ..."
-26% California lawmakers on Friday voted to limit when local governments can count election ballots by hand, a move aimed at a rural Northern California ..."
-28% "nnDominion Voting Systems sued Fox News following the 2020 presidential election, alleging the news agency damaged its reputation by amplifying conspiracy theories that the ..."

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : County supervisors said there was a loss of public confidence in the machines from Dominion Voting Systems, a company at the center of discredited conspiracy theories since the 2020 presidential election.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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