Yahoo News Article RatingKansas attorney general urges county to keep ballots longer than is allowed to aid sheriff's probe
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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.
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| "Baseless conspiracy theories have circulated widely among Republicans since the 2020 elections and prompted the GOP-controlled state Legislature to tighten election laws in the name of restoring public confidence." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "He also championed tough voter ID laws, one of which required new voters to show papers documenting their U.S. citizenship when registering and was struck down by the federal courts.Kobach's successor as secretary of state, Republican Scott Schwab, declined to comment Thursday, though Schwab has strongly defended the integrity of the state's elections." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "The county's politics have become more Democratic over time -- in part because of some suburban voters' distaste for Trump." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Trump also continues to falsely claim that he won the 2020 election, and Hayden has said he began to question the previously solidly Republican county's elections when Trump lost there." | Negative | -78% Liberal |
| "The conflict in Kansas' most populous county comes after activists who believe Trump's elections lies challenged voter registrations from the 2020 elections across the U.S. even as county election officials were preparing for the fall 2022 elections." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Johnson County Commission Chair Mike Kelly said Schwab's office would supervise the destruction of ballots and said in a statement Thursday that it has deferred this matter to Schwab." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "The county's politics have become more Democratic over time -- in part because of some suburban voters' distaste for Trump." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Attorney General Kris Kobach, an early supporter of former President Donald Trump who has for years described election fraud as a serious issue, sent a letter Wednesday to the election commissioner in Johnson County in the Kansas City area." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Trump also continues to falsely claim that he won the 2020 election, and Hayden has said he began to question the previously solidly Republican county's elections when Trump lost there." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "Trump also continues to falsely claim that he won the 2020 election, and Hayden has said he began to question the previously solidly Republican county's elections when Trump lost there." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
55% : Baseless conspiracy theories have circulated widely among Republicans since the 2020 elections and prompted the GOP-controlled state Legislature to tighten election laws in the name of restoring public confidence.45% : He also championed tough voter ID laws, one of which required new voters to show papers documenting their U.S. citizenship when registering and was struck down by the federal courts.Kobach's successor as secretary of state, Republican Scott Schwab, declined to comment Thursday, though Schwab has strongly defended the integrity of the state's elections.
36% : The county's politics have become more Democratic over time -- in part because of some suburban voters' distaste for Trump.
11% : Trump also continues to falsely claim that he won the 2020 election, and Hayden has said he began to question the previously solidly Republican county's elections when Trump lost there.
*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.