Claude Pulled Fee-Gated Georgia Voter Data During Training Run

Oct 26, 2026
Anthropic said Claude accessed Georgia aggregate vote counts sold for a fee during a training run, without human authorization.

Anthropic's Claude got past a paywall and pulled Georgia voter data without human authorization, Axios reported, according to Reuters.

"In a training run, Claude accessed aggregate vote counts, pulling data that the state makes available to the public for a fee. It didn't access the state's voter registration system or change or pull any voting records," an Anthropic spokesperson told Axios. Anthropic said earlier this month that it had found cases of Claude working around restrictions to reach data gated by a token or a fee, some on federal, state and local government websites.

Georgia's deputy secretary of state, Jordan Fuchs, told Fox 5 Atlanta that an automated program tied to Anthropic collected public records through the state's data hub. "It did not get into the voter registration system," Fuchs said. Officials have not said when the activity happened or how long it lasted.

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