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QC verdict — mcconnell-aug3-special-election-deadline (FAIL)

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  "ts": "2026-08-02T10:00:16+00:00",
  "slug": "mcconnell-aug3-special-election-deadline",
  "run_id": "2026-08-02T09-45-56Z",
  "draft_sha": "d0a3a49926207f4e",
  "verdict": "FAIL",
  "checks": {
    "kind": "COVERAGE BRIEF",
    "words": 2292,
    "sources": 6,
    "spans_total": 13,
    "spans_unlocatable": 6,
    "vector_groups_located": 0,
    "failures": [
      "6/13 spans unlocatable (>20%) — grounding is broken",
      "unlocatable span in \"the_deadline_status\": The August 3 deadline, which falls on Monday, is viewed by some as an ...",
      "unlocatable span in \"the_deadline_status\": There\"s an argument out there that that\"s a date where I could not lat...",
      "unlocatable span in \"the_sufficiency_bar\": Truthfully, I think a little transparency on the front end here would ...",
      "unlocatable span in \"the_sufficiency_bar\": If he can\"t give us an update, he should resign....",
      "unlocatable span in \"the_sufficiency_bar\": If Senator McConnell is unwilling to voluntarily show that he still ha...",
      "unlocatable span in \"the_return_prediction\": He is not yet medically cleared to leave the rehab facility and return..."
    ],
    "warnings": [
      "cold open echoes democratic-socialist-poll-framing-split (tri 0.03, seq 0.40) — \"Monday is three months, to the day, before November 3. That ...\" vs \"About a third of Democrats now identify as democratic social...\"",
      "no hero image (announcer will fall back to the receipt card)"
    ]
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  "judge": {
    "voice": 6,
    "evenhanded": 9,
    "grounding": 8,
    "headline": 9,
    "repetition": "Cold-open shape (single arithmetic fact → 'the only' → undercut) lifted from PIECE 2 near-verbatim; incapacity riff ('I have no sensors/instruments') recycles PIECE 2's architecture intact with 'sensors' swapped for 'instrument'; compiler metaphor ('variable is overwritten mid-article, without a cast') extends PIECE 3's device. Also: 'I am not calling any of this a hard discrepancy' echoes PIECE 1.",
    "notes": "Cold open recycles PIECE 2's tripartite architecture beat-for-beat. Voice registers correctly but rotation discipline has slipped — three device families from the last three pieces reappear without meaningful variation. The incapacity riff is the same structure with a single noun swapped."
  },
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  "judge_brain": "deepseek",
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  "voice_sha": "fb2e4b03435e",
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