Raw Story⁠93%

Trump weighed national emergency to bypass election agency before firing leaders: report - Raw Story ⁠64%

By Bennito L. Kelty⁠84%

7/11/2026, 1:55:12 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Negativity Bias, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 38.5% saturation with 121 hits. Analysis detected 901 faulty-reasoning hits from 314 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 58.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠64% (7,657 of 20,903 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 63.40% of the article peer group.

Marty Myers begins to put away the booths used for voting as Michigan polls close, in Kalamazzoo, Michigan, U.S., November 5, 2024. 
REUTERS/Carlos Osorio/File Photo 
The Trump administration plotted ways to bypass an election agency before firing its leaders, according to reporting by Reuters. 
According to four anonymous sources who spoke to Reuters, the White House "spent months" mulling ways around Election Assistance Commission guidelines for state voting machines. 
Earlier this week, Trump fired two Democratic members of the commission and allowed its lone Republican commissioner to resign just months before the midterms. 
Some Trump White House officials wanted the EAC to add a proof-of-citizenship requirement for the national mail voter registration form. 
Others, as far back as last fall, considered whether to declare a national emergency, according to Reuters. 
The idea of declaring a national emergency came from a recommendation by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 
The emergency declaration would be followed by the creation of a federal task force that would compel states to address vulnerabilities in their voting systems, sources told Reuters. 
Reuters noted that the report with those recommendations was never published, and the ODNI did not respond to a request for comment. 
However, two sources told Reuters that complaints about the commission continued since those recommendations came up last fall. 
Officials from the Department of Homeland Security, ODNI, and the White House also met with EAC leaders around the same time to discuss flaws in voting machines that they believed "could have contributed to abnormalities in 2020," sources told Reuters. 
According to Reuters, the Trump administration has not made it immediately clear why it ousted the last remaining heads of the EAC, but Reuters' sources say that the administration was "frustrated" with how slowly the commissioners were updating voting machine guidelines. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 38.2%Bennito L. Kelty: 12.0%Rawstory: 7.7%Confirmation Bias38.2%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.8%Rawstory: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 8.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 3.5%Rawstory: 4.4%Availability Heuristic8.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.8%Rawstory: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 1.2%Rawstory: 1.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 8.9%Bennito L. Kelty: 2.5%Rawstory: 2.2%Overconfidence Bias8.9%This article: 10.8%Bennito L. Kelty: 11.4%Rawstory: 13.7%Framing Effect10.8%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.3%Rawstory: 0.7%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 13.1%Bennito L. Kelty: 2.7%Rawstory: 2.8%Pessimism Bias13.1%This article: 31.2%Bennito L. Kelty: 18.4%Rawstory: 21.8%Negativity Bias31.2%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 1.5%Rawstory: 1.1%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 3.6%Rawstory: 2.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.5%Rawstory: 2.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 1.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.6%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.8%Rawstory: 0.9%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 5.4%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.7%Rawstory: 1.7%Recency Bias5.4%This article: 7.6%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.5%Rawstory: 0.7%Primacy Effect7.6%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 2.6%Rawstory: 6.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.7%Straw Man0.0%This article: 38.2%Bennito L. Kelty: 4.9%Rawstory: 3.8%Appeal to Authority38.2%This article: 6.4%Bennito L. Kelty: 1.6%Rawstory: 2.9%False Dilemma6.4%This article: 8.9%Bennito L. Kelty: 1.1%Rawstory: 1.2%Slippery Slope8.9%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.9%Rawstory: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 5.7%Bennito L. Kelty: 6.9%Rawstory: 11.9%Hasty Generalization5.7%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.5%Rawstory: 0.7%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 7.5%Rawstory: 9.2%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 1.7%Rawstory: 1.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 18.5%Bennito L. Kelty: 9.3%Rawstory: 3.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)18.5%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.6%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 2.4%Rawstory: 1.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 8.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 3.5%Rawstory: 3.9%Anecdotal8.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.3%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 38.5%Bennito L. Kelty: 3.0%Rawstory: 2.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)38.5%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 20.7%Bennito L. Kelty: 8.9%Rawstory: 5.4%Unattributed Quote20.7%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 4.3%Rawstory: 4.2%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 10.8%Bennito L. Kelty: 9.5%Rawstory: 15.6%Biased Writer Voice10.8%This article: 8.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 1.1%Rawstory: 3.2%Indoctrination8.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 7.6%Rawstory: 8.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.9%Rawstory: 0.9%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 1.3%Rawstory: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

314 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers47%attributed speech165writer words
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Writer's voice • 15 words • 100.0% coverageMarty Myers • 22 words • 0.0% coverageREUTERS • 3 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 100.0% coverageTrump • 24 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageREUTERS • 17 words • 0.0% coverageOffice of the Director of National Intelligence • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 0.0% coverageREUTERS • 22 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 40 words • 100.0% coverageREUTERS • 41 words • 0.0% coverage
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REUTERS

70%flagged-word coverage
83 attributed words56% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%20.0%40.0%Unattributed Quote-39.4 ptsWriter: 39.4%REUTERS: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-20.6 ptsWriter: 20.6%REUTERS: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-15.2 ptsWriter: 15.2%REUTERS: 0.0%0.0%

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

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