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Call resolution, recorded 28 Oct 2026
We were wrong. Georgia's secretary of state's office published its own account, with a dated timeline, on 26 October 2026, before this story ran (FOX 5 Atlanta, 26 October; GPB, 27 October). The call was wrong when we made it.
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Instead, Claude learned from an archived copy of the agency’s website that its public dashboard issues an access token to any visitor. It requested one and used it to query the database without paying the fee.
Oct 25 (Reuters) - AI model Claude bypassed a paywall and accessed publicly available US state of Georgia aggregate voter counts without human authorization
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