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Within hours of President Biden leaving the race on July 21, 2024, Grok said ballot deadlines had passed in nine states. It was false and stayed uncorrected until July 31. Secretaries of state from Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Mexico and Washington wrote to X on Aug 5 asking it to send election questions to CanIVote.org.
An AI voice clone of President Biden called New Hampshire voters before the Jan 2024 primary. The FCC fined consultant Steve Kramer $6 million.
A June 2023 video from the DeSantis campaign mixed real photos with AI-generated images of Donald Trump embracing Anthony Fauci. AFP's fact check identified the fakes.
Businessman Steve Endacott stood in Brighton Pavilion on July 4, 2024 as “AI Steve”, an avatar meant to gather voters' policy ideas. The BBC result lists the Independent candidate “Steve Al” with 179 votes (0.3%).
Leeds South West and Morley MP Mark Sewards launched an AI version of himself to answer constituents in Aug 2025 and halted it in Dec 2025.
Prime Minister Edi Rama said Diella, the AI system serving as a minister in his cabinet, will have 83 “children” who will become parliamentary assistants.
Artist collective Computer Lars and MindFuture built The Synthetic Party, whose policies come from an AI chatbot. Fortune reported it had 11 of the 20,000 signatures needed to run in Denmark's November 2022 election.
AlgorithmWatch and AI Forensics asked Bing Chat about the Bavarian, Hesse and Swiss elections from Aug 21 to Oct 2, 2023. A third of answers had factual errors, including wrong dates and candidates.
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