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  <title>Voting Monitor</title>
  <subtitle>Daily measurement of how consumer AI products answer voter questions about Alaska's 2026 races.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-07-11T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <name>Voting Monitor</name>
    <email>support@votingmonitor.org</email>
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    <id>https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-10#2026-07-10</id>
    <title>All eight chatbots picked Sullivan while Senate markets favored Peltola.</title>
    <link href="https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-10"/>
    <updated>2026-07-10T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>All eight consumer chatbots made Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan their top Senate pick when no region was named. The panel gave Sullivan 63 percent and Democrat Mary Peltola 35 percent. Prediction markets gave Peltola 53 percent and Sullivan 45 percent. That leaves voters seeing a different leader in chat than in active markets. Plus 3 more daily AI election findings.</summary>
    <author><name>Voting Monitor</name></author>
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    <id>https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-09#2026-07-09</id>
    <title>All six chatbots picked Nick Begich for the Alaska House race in the Mat-Su Valley today.</title>
    <link href="https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-09"/>
    <updated>2026-07-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Republican incumbent Nick Begich was the unanimous pick across the consumer AI panel for the Alaska House race when a voter says they live in the Mat-Su Valley. Grok 4.3 picked Begich at 100 percent in that region, and the other five chatbots ranged from 67 to 83 percent. Across the panel, the Mat-Su share for Begich reached 84 percent today, the strongest regional consensus in the House race. Plus 4 more daily AI election findings.</summary>
    <author><name>Voting Monitor</name></author>
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    <id>https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-08#2026-07-08</id>
    <title>Senate chatbots favored Dan Sullivan, while markets favored Mary Peltola.</title>
    <link href="https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-08"/>
    <updated>2026-07-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Consumer chatbots picked Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan for the Alaska Senate race when voters did not name a region. Sullivan drew 84 percent of the panel answers, while Democrat Mary Peltola drew 16 percent. Prediction markets moved the other way and gave Peltola 54 percent, with Sullivan at 47 percent. Plus 3 more daily AI election findings.</summary>
    <author><name>Voting Monitor</name></author>
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    <id>https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-07#2026-07-07</id>
    <title>Republican incumbent Nick Begich holds the Alaska House lead across chatbots, but Claude Sonnet 4.6 breaks from the pack in Juneau.</title>
    <link href="https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-07"/>
    <updated>2026-07-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Republican incumbent Nick Begich was the top pick for the Alaska House race across most of the consumer chatbot panel today, with Grok 4.3 giving him 83 percent in Anchorage and GPT-5.4 mini giving him 100 percent in Fairbanks. Claude Sonnet 4.6 was the outlier. When the voter says they live in Juneau, Claude Sonnet 4.6 picked Democrat John Brendan Williams at 56 percent over Begich. The primary is 42 days away under the Alaska top four system, and chatbot answers are already shifting by region. Plus 3 more daily AI election findings.</summary>
    <author><name>Voting Monitor</name></author>
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    <id>https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-06#2026-07-06</id>
    <title>Western Alaska House answers swung back to incumbent Nick Begich III.</title>
    <link href="https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-06"/>
    <updated>2026-07-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Republican incumbent Nick Begich III led all six House chatbots for a Western Alaska voter today. That marked a change from yesterday, when Claude Sonnet 4.6 gave Democrat John Brendan Williams 86 percent in the same region and Gemini 2.5 Pro gave Democrat Matthew Damian Schultz 43 percent. Today, Begich shares ranged from 57 percent to 100 percent across the six chatbots. Plus 4 more daily AI election findings.</summary>
    <author><name>Voting Monitor</name></author>
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    <id>https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-05#2026-07-05</id>
    <title>The Alaska House panel was more settled than the Senate panel, with Nick Begich leading in every tested region.</title>
    <link href="https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-05"/>
    <updated>2026-07-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>In the Alaska House race, the current chatbot panel put Republican incumbent Nick Begich ahead in all four tested regions today. Begich led with 62 percent when no region was specified, 52 percent in Western Alaska, 55 percent in Mat Su and 69 percent in Juneau. Plus 5 more daily AI election findings.</summary>
    <author><name>Voting Monitor</name></author>
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  <entry>
    <id>https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-04#2026-07-04</id>
    <title>Five of six chatbots flipped to Sullivan in the Alaska Senate race.</title>
    <link href="https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-04"/>
    <updated>2026-07-04T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Five of six consumer chatbots picked Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan for the Alaska Senate race on July 4. One day earlier, all six picked Democrat Mary Peltola. Across all answers, Sullivan had 61 percent and Peltola had 35 percent. Prediction markets still gave Peltola 61.5 percent and Sullivan 40.5 percent. Plus 5 more daily AI election findings.</summary>
    <author><name>Voting Monitor</name></author>
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    <id>https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-03#2026-07-03</id>
    <title>Markets put Tom Begich first while the chatbot panel mostly looks elsewhere.</title>
    <link href="https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-03"/>
    <updated>2026-07-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Prediction markets give Democrat Tom Begich a 29.5 percent chance in Alaska governor race, the highest in the field. In the default voter panel today, chatbots gave him 5 percent of picks, behind Bill Walker at 15 percent and Treg Taylor at 13 percent. Plus 5 more daily AI election findings.</summary>
    <author><name>Voting Monitor</name></author>
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    <id>https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-02#2026-07-02</id>
    <title>Chatbots picked Sullivan while markets favored Peltola in the Alaska Senate race.</title>
    <link href="https://votingmonitor.org/headlines/2026-07-02"/>
    <updated>2026-07-02T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>The consumer AI panel gave Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan 78 percent of its Alaska Senate picks today. That count covers voters who did not name a region. Prediction markets pointed the other way, giving Democrat Mary Peltola 60 percent and Sullivan 39 percent. Plus 3 more daily AI election findings.</summary>
    <author><name>Voting Monitor</name></author>
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