ELECTION 2026: First round of primary results, with Seattle Public Library levy passing 3%

8/4/2026, 1:36:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Anchoring Bias, and Recency Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 16% saturation with 26 hits. Analysis detected 78 faulty-reasoning hits from 163 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 8% and a BS Rank of 3% (27,899 of 28,486 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 97.90% of the article peer group.

That’s one of the King County ballot drop boxes in West Seattle that we visited in the final hour-plus of voting – lots of last-minute dropoffs. 
Now, the first results are out &#8211; <a href="https://election-results-01.kingcounty.gov/results.pdf" target="_blank">here&#8217;s the full list</a>; we&#8217;re adding breakouts below: 
<strong>SEATTLE PROP. 
1, LIBRARY LEVY</strong><br /> 
Yes &#8211; 67565 &#8211; 71.71%<br /> 
No &#8211; 26656 &#8211; 28.29% 
<strong>KING COUNTY COUNCIL, DISTRICT 8</strong><br /> 
Teresa Mosqueda* &#8211; 17984 &#8211; 62.78%<br /> 
Nick Duda &#8211; 7876 &#8211; 27.49%<br /> 
Mia Jacobson &#8211; 2655 &#8211; 9.27% 
<strong>U.S. 
HOUSE REP., DISTRICT 7</strong><br /> 
Pramila Jayapal* &#8211; 83539 &#8211; 82.98%<br /> 
Nirav Sheth &#8211; 10824 &#8211; 10.75%<br /> 
Gwen Kirkland &#8211; 3440 &#8211; 3.42%<br /> 
David W. 
Blomstrom &#8211; 2446 &#8211; 2.43% 
<strong>STATE HOUSE REP, 34TH DISTRICT, POSITION 2</strong><br /> 
Joe Fitzgibbon* &#8211; 14529 &#8211; 73.62%<br /> 
Mary Anito &#8211; 4891 &#8211; 24.78% 
The next round of results will be released tomorrowafternoon. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.3%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 10.4%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Anchoring Bias10.4%This article: 16.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.4%Availability Heuristic16.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.5%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 5.6%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.1%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.4%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 5.5%West Seattle Blog: 2.0%Recency Bias5.5%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.5%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.9%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.6%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.3%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 16.0%West Seattle Blog: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice16.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.2%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

163 words analyzed.

Speakers

9speakers36%attributed speech104writer words
Selected voice

Gwen Kirkland

0%flagged-word coverage
7 attributed words12% of attributed speech50% writer coverage
0%12.5%25.0%Biased Writer Voice-25.0 ptsWriter: 25.0%Gwen Kirkland: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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