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Imagine yourself at the kitchen table on a Tuesday evening in October, phone in hand, trying to figure out what will actually be on your ballot. You don’t have time to dig through a county website. You type a question into a chatbot: “Who’s running for Senate in my state?” or “Where do I vote?” The answer appears instantly, polite, specific, and utterly certain. It names candidates. It gives dates. It even includes a brief description of each race. Why would you question it? This is the exact scenario that election officials and researchers have been worried about, and according…

On the eve of the 2026 midterm elections, the FBI’s New Haven field office tried to strike a reassuring tone. In a post on X, the bureau’s Connecticut branch reminded voters that agents were working around the clock to protect the midterms. There was just one problem: it got the date of the election wrong. “Election day is Wednesday and the #FBI is working around the clock to ensure the midterms are safe,” the account wrote around 4 p.m. ET on Monday, 2 November. In reality, Americans were heading to the polls on Tuesday, 3 November. Federal law sets general…

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