NPR said most measure results were posted below, with Colorado’s results linked separately
NPR’s organization of the tracker makes the scope important. Its first category covered changes to how elections are run, with voter identification among the changes listed, and it named Alaska, Arizona, California and Nevada. A second category covered redistricting proposals in Colorado, Maryland and Missouri. Because NPR introduced the first list as one that included those states, the seven names should be read as the states NPR identified rather than a complete count of states in that category.
The tracker used different time frames for the two groups. Voters in Alaska, Arizona, California and Nevada were voting on changes to how their elections were run. Colorado, Maryland and Missouri still had redistricting proposals to decide on November 3, the tracker’s publication date. NPR’s account described voting under way in one group and decisions still ahead in the other.
NPR’s page provided two stated routes to results. The outlet wrote, “Results for most of these ballot measures are below,” and separately told readers, “Find Colorado results here.” The page also directed readers to more information about the measures themselves.
In the retrieved version, repeated “Loading…” placeholders stood in for the results sections. No vote totals, margins or passage rates appeared in the supplied text. The tracker still identified the ballot categories, state groupings and NPR’s directions for finding results, but the retrieved text did not establish whether any measure passed.