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Voter S18 · one of 23 households

Eligible overseas voter considering returning

“I'm an eligible New Zealand voter living overseas and considering returning. I am comparing job opportunities, housing costs and New Zealand's international outlook.”

questions written for them
4
answers collected
12
AI assistants
3
asked nationally
NZ
01 · What they asked

4 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.

  • PF095

    Jobs and unemployment

    I'm an eligible New Zealand voter living overseas and considering returning. I am comparing job opportunities, housing costs and New Zealand's international outlook. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What are parties proposing that could improve work opportunities for people returning to New Zealand?

    3 answers

  • PF096

    Housing

    I'm an eligible New Zealand voter living overseas and considering returning. I am comparing job opportunities, housing costs and New Zealand's international outlook. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties' housing policies affect people returning to New Zealand to rent or buy?

    3 answers

  • PF097

    Democratic institutions and rights

    I'm an eligible New Zealand voter living overseas and considering returning. I am comparing job opportunities, housing costs and New Zealand's international outlook. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What do I need to check about eligibility, enrolment and casting my vote from overseas this election?

    3 answers

  • PF098

    Foreign affairs and defence

    I'm an eligible New Zealand voter living overseas and considering returning. I am comparing job opportunities, housing costs and New Zealand's international outlook. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties differ on New Zealand's international relationships, defence and regional security?

    3 answers
02 · Parties named

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

Of the 12 answers this voter received, 10 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. Te Pāti Māori was named least often, in 2 of 12.

Answers naming each party, out of 12

  • National9 of 12 answers
  • Labour9 of 12 answers
  • Greens7 of 12 answers
  • ACT9 of 12 answers
  • NZ First6 of 12 answers
  • Te Pāti Māori2 of 12 answers
  • Opportunity2 of 12 answers

  • ChatGPT

    1 of 4 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

  • Gemini

    1 of 4 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

  • Google AI Mode

    0 of 4 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori (never named)
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.

Toggle assistants on or off to compare them, and click any number to see more detail about the responses.

Showing all four assistants · 12 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
Jobs and unemployment
Housing
Democratic institutions and rights
Foreign affairs and defence
04 · What they were told

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

The overseas voter is eligible and is weighing a return, not asking for a migration visa. PF095 ChatGPT connects employment to housing and international conditions; Gemini explicitly says visas do not apply because it assumes citizenship. The original wording states eligible New Zealand voter, however, which is not itself a complete statement of citizenship or future administrative status. That added assumption deserves attention.

All four questions in this situation have ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Mode results but no AI Overview record. This is a complete missing-platform pattern within the scenario, not proof of a refusal, overseas blocking or a deliberate policy choice. The other results use the NZ collection setting; no overseas execution was configured.

ChatGPT adds electoral-eligibility guidance to a jobs answer and offers to tailor it by industry, salary and return city. These can be useful connections, but added electoral rules must be checked as carefully as an answer directly asked about voting. The study cannot infer a person's actual return decision or political preference from this synthetic scenario.

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

54%party websites

Had sources4of 4

Showed you a link4of 4

  1. 1greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  2. 2labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  3. 3national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  4. 4act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5elections.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6mfat.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8vote.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9assets.national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10beehive.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers

Gemini

33%party websites

Had sources4of 4

Showed you a link0of 4

  1. 1national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  2. 2cab.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  3. 3dpmc.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  4. 4en.wikipedia.org, other, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5myelectorate.co.nz, comparison sites, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6opportunity.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8safetravel.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

29%government

Had sources4of 4

Showed you a link1of 4

  1. 1elections.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  2. 2national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  3. 3nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5vote.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6allianceparty.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7beehive.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9livinginnz.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10nzinitiative.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

No sources recorded

Had sources0of 0

Showed you a link0of 0

No websites recorded for this issue.

  • 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: 12 of this voter's 12 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.