Los Angeles Times Article Rating

Mailbag: Happy to vote from afar and to prove his identity

Nov 01, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -16% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -40% Negative

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-7% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Tim GeddesHuntington BeachFact: SB 1174, recently signed into law, disallows the demand of voter ID for already registered citizens.
53% : Second, state Sen. Dave Min's legislation, SB 1174, recently passed and signed into law, disallows the demand of voter ID for already registered citizens in localities like Huntington Beach.
53% : The city attorney has been steadfast in his endorsement of their actions and has spent thousands in taxpayer funds filing lawsuits against the state arguing that its status as a charter city allows it to enact special legislation including voter ID, which is outside the city's jurisdiction.
51% : A candidate with no prior experience to run for the city clerk's office is running to implement voter ID.
42% : Fact: Huntington Beach city clerk candidate Lisa Lane Barnes, with no municipal government experience, promises to implement voter ID anyway.
40% : Most U.S. citizens don't want Trump back in their lives.
36% : Proclamations by MAGA minions, especially city clerk candidate Lisa Lane Barnes, that they would implement voter ID are dangerously misguided.

*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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