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How the coverage framed it

With a bias spread of just 1.5 points across all outlets, coverage of this story was largely uniform, clustering near the center with only modest framing differences at the edges. NPR's headline, the most left-leaning, anchored its framing in "Civil rights advocates" — a phrase scorers flagged as positively coded — and characterized poll observers as a protective presence, implicitly framing the story around voter access concerns. The New York Times took a slightly more neutral but still access-focused angle, using factual language like "Glitch Delays" while adding mild urgency with "Looms." The Economist's headline — "America's election officials are ready for trouble" — was the most neutral of the three, using no ideologically coded language and framing officials as prepared rather than reactive. The shared thread across all outlets was procedural concern about election integrity, with the modest variance reflecting differences in emphasis rather than any sharp ideological divide.