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Report: U.S. Voters Turning to Chatbots for Election-Related Information

American voters are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and AI-generated search summaries for election-related information in growing numbers, according to research published in 2026 by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and the AI firms Orchestra and Anthropic.

According to a report by The Hill, the trend spans both dedicated chatbots and AI overviews embedded in search engines. U.S. adult chatbot usage rose from about one-third of adults in 2024 to about 50% in 2026, per a study commissioned by Orchestra [1]. About 650,000 chatbot prompts reviewed by the firm related to politics, the study found, with ChatGPT and Google AI tools the most frequently used sources, according to the research [1].

The shift is drawing scrutiny from election officials and researchers because AI systems can generate answers that are incomplete, outdated or inaccurate, the reports stated. The findings arrive as the 2026 midterm elections approach, with state and local offices preparing for voters who may arrive at the polls with information assembled by automated tools [2].

Use of AI for Political Questions Grows

An analysis by the Anthropic Economic Index found that politics ranked No. 66 out of 189 topics, a level the researchers described as “modest, but still meaningful,” according to the report. In states holding May primaries, political conversations on the platform rose about 20%, according to Anthropic’s Andy Hall and UCLA’s Dan Thompson, who authored the analysis.

“If primaries can lift political AI use this much, November’s midterm elections will likely bring the biggest wave of political AI use on record,” Hall and Thompson wrote. The projection suggests that general-election traffic will exceed the primary-season increase, according to the report.

Max Read of the ISD said AI outputs “are going to be playing an increasing role” as a primary information source and in subtler ways, according to The Hill [2]. The Associated Press reported in a May investigation that AI “can not only rapidly produce targeted campaign emails, texts or videos; it also could be used to mislead voters, impersonate candidates and undermine elections on a scale and at a speed not yet seen,” according to the report [2]. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report ranked misinformation and disinformation as the foremost threat to humanity in its 19th edition, ahead of climate change, the report stated.

Accuracy and Completeness Concerns Persist

An ISD report found that 29% of election-related chatbot replies were incomplete, inaccurate or outdated, according to the report. Errors included misidentifying Election Day dates and citing outdated requirements, the report stated. Another 16% of responses answered correctly but omitted useful details such as deadlines or ID requirements, according to the findings.

Accuracy dropped 16 percentage points when prompts were submitted in Spanish, the report stated. The language gap raises questions about whether AI tools serve voters with limited English proficiency as reliably as English-speaking users, according to the researchers.

Ben Worthen of Orchestra said the growth in people turning to these tools for information questions has been “staggering,” and that Google AI overviews now answer much of what users type into Google. Independent researchers have documented similar patterns across other domains, including public health, where chatbots have generated flawed medical advice according to independent research [3]. A study by the Digital Media Research Center found that AI chatbots often fail to debunk conspiracy theories, instead presenting them as plausible alternatives and engaging in “bothsidesing” by offering false narratives alongside facts without clear refutation [3].

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Awful Democrat Karen Bass Declares California Governor Race is Already Over: ‘A Republican Cannot Win in This State’

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass recently claimed that there is really no need for an election for governor in California because a Republican ‘cannot win’ in the state.

So much for that sacred ‘democracy’ that Democrat are always talking about.

Bass also mocked Republican Steve Hilton’s accent. Isn’t that hateful? Don’t Democrats constantly lecture the rest of the country for not being inclusive enough? This woman is an utter fraud.

PJ Media Reports:

Democrats have spent years warning us that democracy hangs by a thread every time Americans head to the polls, and Democrats are the party that is protecting it.

Well, somebody forgot to tell Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, because she just declared California’s governor’s race over, and that an election isn’t necessary.

Bass sat down with former ESPN personalities Jemele Hill and Cari Champion on the Flagrant and Funny podcast to talk about her reelection campaign, her runoff, and the Palisades and Altadena fires. During that conversation, Bass revealed what Democrats really think about “our democracy.”

“That’s why the governor’s race is over. Our governor’s name is Xavier Becerra,” Bass said. “You don’t need an election on November 3. A Republican cannot win in this state.”

Then she took a shot at Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, the British-born former Fox News host. “And yet, a Republican with a British accent?!” she added.

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Where Is Ronald Morales? One Diligent Attorney Wants to Know

Where in the world is Ronald Morales?!

Please help attorney David Wilson find him. Ronald Morales is from Venezuela, and is a critical witness to testify at deposition and trial in the Eric Coomer v. Joe Oltmann case, 20-34319.

Attorneys for Joe Oltmann have looked high and low for Morales, also known as “Ronny Valles” and “Ronald Santiago Morales Valles.”

Dominion and Coomer have asserted for years that there is no remote access to the voting systems, and they have nothing to do with Venezuela.

However, Morales is on emails with Venezuela and Smartmatic/Sequoia in 2007 where the steps for the RAS, Remote Access Server, are shared.

Morales joined Smartmatic around 2004 and worked on Election Management System (EMS) quality assurance in Venezuela. After Smartmatic acquired Sequoia Voting Systems, he worked on integrating Smartmatic equipment with Sequoia’s EMS. He later became a senior systems manager at Dominion.

A set of August 2007 emails circulated on sites such as Election Crime Bureau shows Fernando Hernández of Smartmatic Labs in Venezuela writing to Ronald Morales (then at Sequoia) with the subject “RAS Server.” The message lists hardware and software needed to set up a Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) server. Follow-up emails discuss configuration and mention a RAS server and “HAAT Listener” intended for use in Wisconsin.

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OOPS: Kamala Harris Says the Quiet Part Out Loud as She Whines About Republican Efforts to Ensure Fair Elections 

Kamala Harris has made a damning admission about how her party ‘wins’ elections that could create a few headaches for her party as the midterm elections approach.

As CBS News reported, Harris spoke during a Tuesday evening NAACP forum in Detroit, Michigan, after campaigning for Muslim Marxist Abdul El-Sayed earlier in the day.

The purpose of the forum was to rally Democrats behind El-Sayed and outline the stakes of the midterm elections.

At one point, Harris whined about how the GOP and the Trump Administration have, in some cases, removed all the tools they’ve relied on to ‘win’ elections over the past half-century.

These ‘tools’ purging the voter rolls, beating the Democrats at their own game when it comes to gerrymandering, and ensuring more reasonable polling locations.

In short, Kamala Harris is ADMITTING Democrats have depended on illegal voters, shady vote counting, and rigged district lines to maintain power.

Now, they’re having to fight on more even ground.

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Crooked Michigan SOS Jocelyn Benson LOSES BIG IN COURT After Ordering Clerks to Defy Federal Law and Delete Election Records Following Election

On August 12, The Gateway Pundit’s Patty McMurray reported that Michigan attorney Kevin Kijewski filed a verified complaint in the Michigan Court of Claims on behalf of Bridgewater Township Clerk Michelle McQueer.

Kijewski, a former Republican candidate for Michigan Attorney General, first gained statewide attention for successfully defending Clifford Frost, one of the Republican alternate electors targeted by Attorney General Dana Nessel. After securing the dismissal of the charges against Frost, Kijewski was inspired to seek the AG nomination, running on a platform to end partisan lawfare and restore the rule of law.

Here is a screenshot of Michelle McQueer’s lawsuit against Jocelyn Benson.

The lawsuit challenged Rule R 168.48, issued under Benson’s authority, which requires clerks to delete electronic poll book software and all associated files within seven days after an election is certified.

Could Benson’s requirement to willfully destroy election documents in advance of the 22-month federal and state preservation statute put clerks in jeopardy of being criminally charged?

Federal law states:

-52 U.S.C. § 20701 requires every “officer of election” to retain and preserve all records relating to voting in federal elections for 22 months.

-52 U.S.C. § 20702 makes it a federal crime for any person to willfully destroy, conceal, or alter those records.
Penalty: up to a $1,000 fine, up to one year in prison, or both.

The complaint argues the rule collides with federal statute (52 U.S.C. § 20701), which requires election officers to preserve all records relating to acts of voting in federal elections for 22 months. Willful destruction of those records is a federal crime. Michigan law (MCL 168.811) similarly prohibits the destruction of election returns, poll lists, and federal-office ballots before the same 22-month period expires.

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DOJ Announces Charges Against Utah Postal Worker For Trashing More Than 300 Mail-In Ballots

The Justice Department on Tuesday announced a postal worker was indicted for discarding more than 300 mail-in ballots in a dumpster.

A grand jury indicted 34-year-old Damon Matai Seei on September 16 on one count of Unlawful Secretion, Destruction, and Delay of Mail.

Seei was arraigned at a federal courthouse in Utah on Tuesday afternoon.

“[On] June 3, 2026, SEEI threw away some of the mail, which he had been entrusted to deliver, into a dumpster in a church parking lot. He later admitted in an interview that he threw away the mail because he wanted to “lighten his workload” so he could presumably go home earlier,” the Justice Department’s detention memo read.

“When American voters lawfully cast their vote, they should feel confident that it is counted,” said Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter.

He continued, “Allegedly throwing away hundreds of ballots is a serious federal crime that undermines the integrity of our elections. Ballot integrity is not a partisan issue.”

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Michigan County Clerk: “9 out of 10 voter registrations” received by clerks in my County Are Fraudulent—One Clerk Received 47 for ONE Person!

Macomb County, Michigan, with its heavy blue-collar population, was responsible for President Trump winning the swing state in 2016. Macomb County’s blue-collar vote helped put Michigan — and the presidency — in Donald Trump’s column in 2016. After the state was handed to Joe Biden in November 2020, that same county forged some of Michigan’s most relentless election-integrity fighters.

Fast forward ten years to 2026, and Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini is on the ballot as the Republican candidate for Secretary of State, replacing the nation’s most corrupt Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson. For the first time since Michigan Republican Senator Ruth Johnson held the office, Michigan has a real chance at cleaning up its voter rolls.

Anthony Forlini is not an in-your-face type candidate; however, he is quietly proving to Michigan voters that he’s serious about removing non-citizens, dead voters, fake registrations, and duplicate voters from its voter rolls.

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DOJ Crackdown on Illegal Alien Voting Picks Up Steam with Charges Announced in Seven States

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has put illegal voters on notice with the 2026 midterms only weeks away, announcing charges against 16 people in multiple states for election crimes that include noncitizens casting ballots.

As one DOJ official put it, “American elections are for Americans.”

The charges, which include illegal voting, illegal voter registration, wire fraud, passport and identity fraud, and even firearm offenses were detailed in a lengthy DOJ release Friday.

It was followed by a warning on social media, with the DOJ writing, “If you are not allowed to vote in our elections, you shouldn’t. And if you do, that’s a CRIME. This isn’t a partisan issue!”

In addition to these charges, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche stepped up to a White House lectern on Tuesday and announced charges against 11 individuals for illegally voting or fraudulently registering in the 2022 and 2024 elections.

“We are seeing illegal aliens voting,” Blanche told reporters.

According to the DOJ release, eight noncitizens residing in Texas were charged, while the other cases involved defendants in Idaho, Georgia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Michigan.

The cases are part of a Trump administration crackdown on threats to the integrity of the U.S. election system.

The examples in the DOJ statement were striking.

According to a Fox News summary:

In Georgia, DOJ said Analiea Milliscent Eccles, a Venezuelan national and DACA recipient, voted nine times between 2008 and 2024. She was charged with voting as a noncitizen and falsely claiming U.S. citizenship to vote.

Avila Gomez, a Mexican national residing in Idaho, is accused of falsely claiming U.S. citizenship to register to vote and then voting in May 2022 and November 2024. The indictment also includes wire fraud, passport, identification-document and firearm-related charges.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom Signs Bills Making it a FELONY to ‘Seize’ Ballots Before Crooked State Officials ‘Certify’ Elections – U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli Responds

California Governor Gavin Newsom has officially decided to go to war with the Trump Administration after signing legislation that would likely enable even more widespread voter fraud.

Newsom announced on Saturday that he had just signed multiple laws that would, in his words ‘stop Trump’s attacks on vote by mail” by making the seizure of ballots a felony before state officials certify the elections.

“I just signed new laws protecting your ballot and STOPPING Trump’s attacks on vote-by-mail — making it a felony to seize ballots or interfere with our elections,” Newsom bragged on X.

“Trump can try all he wants. California WILL protect your right to vote!”

“Donald Trump won’t stop until he can exert dictatorial control over your free vote and disenfranchise millions of people this November. California will stop him at every opportunity,” Newsom said in a separate statement.

” We have no bigger task than fighting to protect the right to vote from interference and meddling — the future of democracy is on the line.”

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New Jersey’s Dirty Voter Rolls Are Just The Tip Of The Iceberg — And Democrats Are Covering It Up

New Jersey’s non-citizens on the voter rolls scandal is not a glitch. It is a window into a complete breakdown in a system of election integrity and Congress is finally looking through it.

This week, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitution held a hearing, “Restoring Election Integrity: Oversight of Voter Fraud in New Jersey.” According to information gathered by Republican investigators in the Garden State, in 2023 and 2024 alone, at least 6,600 non-citizens were placed on the state’s voter rolls. Hundreds of them even went on to cast ballots in various elections. Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill finally admitted the huge problem after she was forced into making the confession by the GOP investigators and a formal warning letter from DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin.

Then she stonewalled the Department of Justice.

“‘Coverup’ is the polite way to say, in political terms, you don’t want this to come to light,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-NJ, said of Gov. Sherrill and her administration in relation to the allegations of a coverup.

As the House Judiciary subcommittee continued to dig through the voter fraud scandal in New Jersey, experts on election integrity testified that what happened in the Garden State is likely to have happened in other states, on dates other than those cited by Governor Sherrill. Jason Sena, an election law attorney from New Jersey, noted that non-citizens had registered to vote in the state before and after the so-called ‘glitch’ in software that Governor Sherrill said caused the problem, through means having nothing to do with the Motor Vehicle Commission. Josh Findlay, a research analyst with the America First Policy Institute, concurred with Sena, adding, “New Jersey may be just the tip of the iceberg.”

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