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What are current state rules for voting? Trump's executive order in context

  • Bias Rating

    24% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -60% Negative

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.

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : " "We want to have paper ballots, one-day voting, voter ID, and proof of citizenship," he said.
50% : For example, California has battled Republican-led Huntington Beach over its attempts to introduce voter ID rules.
46% : Voters rights groups have fought ID requirements, with some evidence claiming that 11 percent of eligible voters do not have a government-issued ID.
46% : Some states have prohibited cities within it from introducing voter ID laws.
44% : Legislation passed by the California Assembly and Senate in 2024 mandated that local government could not impose voter ID rules, motivated by concerns that such rules disproportionately affect low-income, elderly, and minority voters.
41% : States would also be required to turn over voter lists and records of voter list maintenance to be reviewed by the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to identify people on the rolls who are not U.S. citizens.
41% : Trump previously pledged to make changes to the U.S. electoral system, saying in December 2024 that he would "look at elections.
12% : Trump and his allies have been demanding changes to voter rules and requirements for years, motivated at least in part by the outcome of the 2020 election and some of the false claims that Trump won that contest.

*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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