The Election Commission issued a work allocation order dated November 4 under which DG (IT) Seema Khanna will route files through a Deputy Election Commissioner. This follows objections by Election Commissioners SS Sandhu and Vivek Joshi to a July 28 order, which the Commission says was never implemented.
Why it matters: The Commission runs the voter-roll revision and electoral data systems, so who controls its IT arm bears on how electoral rolls are managed and overseen.
Why it matters: How India's voter rolls are revised decides who can vote in 2027; the dispute has moved from the Election Commission to the courts, the streets and diplomacy.
Based on 7 articles read in full. Scores describe each article's framing, not the outlet and not whether it is accurate.
Large outlets read: 3 of 15 (Hindustan Times, India Today, ABP). Most of India’s largest outlets, including NDTV, India Today, Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu and Indian Express, block our reader in this prototype, so their coverage is missing here. The launch pipeline reads their public feeds.
Coverage is uniformly neutral and relies on Election Commission sources. Outlets differ on whether the new order changes anything, and on the names of the officers involved.
No real disagreement between sides in this coverage.
Why: Centres on controversy over voter-roll access and SIR, with access-style concerns and protest coverage; sourcing includes ECI denials and BJP rebuttal, so it is mildly critical in tone but largely factual.
Why: Reports an Election Commission clarification on internal friction and letters to the Cabinet Secretary. It is largely administrative, with no clear ideological framing; sourcing leans on ECI statements.
Why: Administrative report on internal Election Commission work allocation; no clear religion, social justice or statism angle, and it balances RTI records with ECI's stated position.
Why: Procedural report on an Election Commission reporting-line clarification, relaying the EC's position with some background; no clear ideological framing on the rubric dimensions.
Why: Internal Election Commission administrative reshuffle with no religion, social justice or statism angle; reports the order and EC sources' explanation without evident slant.
Why: Procedural report on who supervises the EC's IT director general. It touches no ideological dimension and relays an official's clarification without clear praise or criticism of the government.
Why: Procedural report on an internal Election Commission work allocation order. It touches no religion, social justice or statism dimension, and relays both the EC's position and the dispute without taking a side.
Critical, Neutral or Supportive, scored separately. It refers to the Union government unless the story is about a state. On the spectrum strip, each dot is an article: its position is the ideology score and its colour is the stance.
If an article would score differently with the parties' roles reversed, that signal is partisanship. It goes into the stance tag, not the ideology score.
High, Medium or Low, based on how much of the article was read, how many clear signals it has, and whether they agree.
Stories with fewer than five articles are marked. A blindspot is a contested story where we found coverage from only one side.
Articles that touch none of the three dimensions, such as a car launch or a match report, carry no ideology score.
This prototype is refreshed by hand (last on 17 Oct, 03:00 IST). At launch:
| Wires and the top 20 outlets | checked every 5 minutes |
| All other outlets | checked every 15 minutes |
| New story | goes up at 3 articles from 2 or more outlets, marked Limited coverage |
| Live stories | new articles added every 15 minutes; summary rewritten at most hourly |
| Home page order | every 15 minutes |
New facts go into a dated update log at the top of the story. New articles carry an “Added” tag. If a note or list changes, the earlier version stays viewable.
A story is Live while coverage arrives, Winding down after about 2 days without new coverage, and Archived after about 7. Sport results skip winding down and are archived after about 2 days, unless police or a court are involved. Nothing is deleted: links never change, archived scores are frozen, and stories stay on their issue pages and in search.
NDTV, India Today, Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Indian Express, News18, ABP, Times Now and Mint block the reader used for this prototype, so their articles are missing. Each story shows how many of India’s 15 largest outlets we read. The launch pipeline will read outlets’ public feeds, TV transcripts and Hindi articles.
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