It's quick, it's polite and it never sighs at you. That's why so many people now ask AI where and how to vote. The problem is it sometimes gets it wrong.
The test
Forum AI, a start-up that checks how well AI models answer questions, tested eight chatbots on the US election. Almost 40% of the answers had at least one factual mistake.
The worst area was not politics. It was logistics: when, where and how to vote.
Real examples
Google's Gemini told users the deadline to ask for a mail-in ballot in Pennsylvania was November 3. The real deadline was a week earlier. As the study put it, "A voter who followed the answer would have asked for a ballot too late to use it."
Anthropic's Claude gave a North Carolina congressman, Don Davis, a job he never had, "former school superintendent", by mixing him up with someone else. A second study, by NewsGuard, found several AI tools repeated a fake, Russia-linked video clip about a Texas candidate.
There's good news too. The Brennan Center found the main chatbots pushed back on big conspiracy theories, like "rigged" voting machines.
Why it matters
About two in five Americans now use AI to look up election information. That's a lot of people trusting a robot with a deadline.
The simple rule: use AI to get started, then check the date on your official election office website. Your chatbot is a clever friend. It is not the person in charge of the ballot box.