# Anthropic adds official voting info and new safeguards to Claude

> Claude will now embed state‑specific voting details and election night results, and Anthropic reports tighter bias tests ahead of the 2026 US midterms.

Oossa · 2026-10-14 · https://oossa.com/en/anthropic-adds-official-voting-info-and-new-safeguards-to-claude

Anthropic announced that its Claude chatbot will start pulling official voting information from Democracy Works into responses for US users later this month. The update also adds real‑time election night results directly in the chat. The company says its newest models score 99% on internal political even‑handedness tests and that new classifiers improve detection of multi‑step election abuse.

## The facts

- 5.75% of US Claude conversations in a Sep 21‑27, 2026 sample mentioned politics or policy.
- 0.51% of those conversations were specifically about elections or voting.

## Why it matters

US voters can get accurate, state‑specific voting instructions and live results without leaving Claude, reducing reliance on potentially biased sources.

## Sources & references

1. [Oct 14, 2026PolicyPreparing for the 2026 US midterms](https://www.anthropic.com/news/2026-us-midterms) – Anthropic, 2026-10-14

Last updated: 2026-10-14