Utah lawmakers who undermine faith in elections should resign their seats, Editorial Board writes

Oct 23, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -28% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    24% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    98% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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"Though lawmakers showed perhaps excessive forbearance in hearing out a room full of extremists who claim everyone from the Chinese Communist Party to Black Lives Matter had somehow cooked the books."
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-24% Liberal
"If legislators such as Christensen and Lyman won't follow and can't lead, they should get out of the way, resign their seats and let someone else face our real challenges."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Other top lawmakers and executive branch officials have managed to ignore Christiansen's calls for permission to rummage around in the state's voter registration records in search of reams of personal information about voters."
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-12% Liberal
"But by pushing for an ill-defined audit of 2020 elections results, state Reps. Steve Christiansen, R-South Jordan, and Rep. Phil Lyman, R-Blanding, have outed themselves as purveyors of the Big Lie."
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-14% Liberal
"But by pushing for an ill-defined audit of 2020 elections results, state Reps. Steve Christiansen, R-South Jordan, and Rep. Phil Lyman, R-Blanding, have outed themselves as purveyors of the Big Lie."
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-14% Liberal
"The two have been caught worshiping at the alter of the My Pillow Guy and the lunatic fringe of the Arizona Republican Party, who have throughly embarrassed themselves by spouting unproven and disproven theories of how an election that Joe Biden won by a margin of 7 million votes was somehow stolen."
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-26% Liberal
"The chair of a Wednesday committee hearing on state elections, Rep. Kariae Lisonbee, R-Layton, was having none of it."
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-34% Liberal
"It would be better still if such worthies as Senate President Stuart Adams and House Speaker Brad Wilson would go beyond ducking the unpleasantness and come out with a firm renunciation of those who are trying to get the voters of Utah to think there's something wrong with their elections."
Negative
-58% Liberal
"It would be better still if such worthies as Senate President Stuart Adams and House Speaker Brad Wilson would go beyond ducking the unpleasantness and come out with a firm renunciation of those who are trying to get the voters of Utah to think there's something wrong with their elections."
Negative
-58% Liberal
"There is no chance that the elections of 2020 -- including the balloting that got Christiansen and Lyman their seats -- are going to be thrown out."
Negative
-66% Liberal
"There is no chance that the elections of 2020 -- including the balloting that got Christiansen and Lyman their seats -- are going to be thrown out."
Negative
-66% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : Though lawmakers showed perhaps excessive forbearance in hearing out a room full of extremists who claim everyone from the Chinese Communist Party to Black Lives Matter had somehow cooked the books.

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