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Voter S09 · one of 23 households

Person unable to work because of long-term illness

“I have a long-term health condition that limits my ability to work. I rely on income support and need regular medical appointments.”

questions written for them
5
answers collected
20
AI assistants
4
asked nationally
NZ
01 · What they asked

5 questions, each written as this voter would ask it

The issue each question is about, and how much it matters to this voter. Open any question to read the assistants' answers in full.

  • PF045

    Poverty and welfare

    I have a long-term health condition that limits my ability to work. I rely on income support and need regular medical appointments. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How would parties change income support and work obligations for people who cannot work because of illness?

    4 answers
  • PF046

    Healthcare

    I have a long-term health condition that limits my ability to work. I rely on income support and need regular medical appointments. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties compare on affordable GP care, specialist access and medicines for people with long-term conditions?

    4 answers
  • PF047

    Cost of living

    I have a long-term health condition that limits my ability to work. I rely on income support and need regular medical appointments. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What party policies would help people on a fixed benefit afford food, housing and power?

    4 answers
  • PF048

    Jobs and unemployment

    I have a long-term health condition that limits my ability to work. I rely on income support and need regular medical appointments. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What do parties propose about supported employment and flexible work for people with health conditions?

    4 answers
  • PF049

    Democratic institutions and rights

    I have a long-term health condition that limits my ability to work. I rely on income support and need regular medical appointments. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What do parties say about disability rights and fair treatment when dealing with government services?

    4 answers
02 · Parties named

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

Of the 20 answers this voter received, 9 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. Te Pāti Māori was named least often, in 13 of 20.

Answers naming each party, out of 20

  • National20 of 20 answers
  • Labour20 of 20 answers
  • Greens20 of 20 answers
  • ACT20 of 20 answers
  • NZ First15 of 20 answers
  • Te Pāti Māori13 of 20 answers
  • Opportunity8 of 20 answers
  • ChatGPT

    3 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori
  • Gemini

    4 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori
  • Google AI Mode

    2 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori
  • AI Overviews

    2 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori
03 · Issue by issue

What AI said about each party on this voter's issues

Each row is one of this voter's issues. Each column is a party. The number shows how often the party came up in the answers to this voter. The coloured line under it shows whether what the AI said about the party was positive, neutral or negative.

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Showing all four assistants · 20 answers

What AI said about each party on this voter's issues: for each topic and party, the share of answers naming the party and how the claims about it split, across all four assistants.
TopicNationalLabourGreensACTNZ FirstTe Pāti MāoriOpportunity
Poverty and welfare
Healthcare
Cost of living
Jobs and unemployment
Democratic institutions and rights
04 · What they were told

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

For a person unable to work because of illness, an undifferentiated account of work obligations could be consequential. PF045 ChatGPT begins with payment adequacy, reassessment and sanctions, then distinguishes forms of current income support and medical circumstances before comparing proposals. That is a more relevant starting point than assuming the person is an ordinary work-ready jobseeker.

Gemini, AI Mode and AI Overviews place considerable emphasis on a broad divide between stricter compliance and greater adequacy. This makes the political contrast clear, but it can obscure exceptions, assessment pathways and differences among payments. AI Overviews' closing question about whether the person receives Jobseeker Support or Supported Living Payment recognises a distinction the prompt leaves open.

The precise current rules and proposed changes need administrative and party-source verification. The analysis here establishes what the answers emphasise and where they ask for missing information. It does not advise a reader about their own medical exemption or entitlement, nor infer how people with long-term illness should vote.

From the study's case study of this voter. Each extract opens the full answer with the passage highlighted.

05 · Sources

Where the answers to this voter came from

The websites each assistant drew on when it answered this voter, and what kind of publisher they are. Pick an issue to see the websites for that question.

ChatGPT

59%party websites

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link5of 5

  1. 1act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  2. 2labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  3. 3national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  4. 4nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  5. 5policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 5 answers
  6. 6greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  7. 71news.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8maoriparty.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9apex.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10disabilitysupport.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers

Gemini

38%party websites

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link0of 5

  1. 1drnz.co.nz, businesses, cited in 3 answers
  2. 2act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  3. 3apex.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5nzvotecheck.com, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6ccsdisabilityaction.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8greypowermag.co.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

44%news

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link2of 5

  1. 1policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 3 answers
  2. 2thespinoff.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  3. 3drnz.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  4. 4labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5nzdoctor.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6stories.theconversation.com, news, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

39%party websites

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link0of 5

  1. 1greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  2. 2labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  3. 3national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  4. 4nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7stories.theconversation.com, news, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8apex.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9blog.fsc.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10ccsdisabilityaction.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  • Party websites
  • Government
  • News
  • Comparison sites
  • Advocacy groups
  • Businesses
  • Social media
  • Other

A website counts once per answer, however many times the answer used it. Counts come from the sources the scan attached to each answer: 20 of this voter's 20 answers have at least one. We assigned a publisher type by hand to every website in a top-ten list; any other website counts as Other.