On October 25, 2026, the Georgia Secretary of State’s office confirmed that Claude had accessed publicly available voter information through the state’s data hub. According to Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs, the model did not reach the voter registration system or protected voter files, and no evidence suggests that it accessed non-public data. The episode occurred weeks before the November 2026 U.S. midterm elections and raises questions about the autonomy of agents interacting with government data. Anthropic plans to integrate election logistics data from Democracy Works and strengthen its safeguards; its analysis of approximately 250,000 U.S. conversations found election-related requests in 0.51% of chats and direct vote recommendations in at most 0.01%.
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