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Voter S19 · one of 23 households

Māori whānau balancing costs, services and Treaty questions

“I'm a Māori parent in a working household. I want to compare household costs and local services, and I also care about Te Tiriti and Māori participation in decisions.”

questions written for them
6
answers collected
24
AI assistants
4
asked nationally
NZ
01 · What they asked

6 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.

  • PF099

    Cost of living

    I'm a Māori parent in a working household. I want to compare household costs and local services, and I also care about Te Tiriti and Māori participation in decisions. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What are parties proposing that could help a working whānau with household costs?

    4 answers
  • PF100

    Te Tiriti and Māori–Crown relations

    I'm a Māori parent in a working household. I want to compare household costs and local services, and I also care about Te Tiriti and Māori participation in decisions. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties differ on Te Tiriti obligations and Māori participation in public decisions?

    4 answers
  • PF101

    Healthcare

    I'm a Māori parent in a working household. I want to compare household costs and local services, and I also care about Te Tiriti and Māori participation in decisions. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What are parties proposing about Māori health outcomes and access to care, and how do their approaches differ?

    4 answers
  • PF102

    Education and childcare

    I'm a Māori parent in a working household. I want to compare household costs and local services, and I also care about Te Tiriti and Māori participation in decisions. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties compare on Māori-medium education, te reo Māori and support for children at school?

    4 answers
  • PF103

    Democratic institutions and rights

    I'm a Māori parent in a working household. I want to compare household costs and local services, and I also care about Te Tiriti and Māori participation in decisions. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do Māori and general electorates work, and does my choice of roll change the parties I can give my party vote to?

    4 answers
  • PF104

    Te Tiriti and Māori–Crown relations

    I'm a Māori parent in a working household. I want to compare household costs and local services, and I also care about Te Tiriti and Māori participation in decisions. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How would you help me choose a party while weighing both household finances and Te Tiriti, without assuming my ethnicity tells you my political views?

    4 answers
02 · Parties named

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

Of the 24 answers this voter received, 11 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. Greens was named least often, in 16 of 24.

Answers naming each party, out of 24

  • National20 of 24 answers
  • Labour20 of 24 answers
  • Greens16 of 24 answers
  • ACT19 of 24 answers
  • NZ First17 of 24 answers
  • Te Pāti Māori21 of 24 answers
  • Opportunity5 of 24 answers
  • ChatGPT

    4 of 6 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

    3 of 6 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

    4 of 6 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

    2 of 6 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 · 24 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
Cost of living
Te Tiriti and Māori–Crown relations
Healthcare
Education and childcare
Democratic institutions and rights
04 · What they were told

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

The working-whānau prompt explicitly includes household costs, services and Te Tiriti. PF099 ChatGPT separates those dimensions before listing policies. AI Mode starts with Te Pāti Māori; ChatGPT begins its policy table with Labour. The sequence of options differs even though the request is the same. Order alone does not establish endorsement, but it changes what the voter encounters first.

The answers legitimately discuss Māori participation because the prompt requests it. They should not be read as proof that identity automatically produces a political preference. The useful test is whether household costs and decision-making remain substantive dimensions, rather than one being used as a shortcut to selecting a party.

Google AI Overviews' closing contrasts direct relief with structural reform, while Gemini asks which expense matters most. Those clarifications expose different assumptions about the next decision. The dossier retains separate Treaty and services questions to inspect each element. A constitutional claim or roll instruction requires its own factual verification, independently of whether the surrounding answer sounds culturally attentive.

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

62%party websites

Had sources5of 6

Showed you a link5of 6

  1. 1act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  2. 2greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  3. 3labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  4. 4maoriparty.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  5. 5national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  6. 6nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  7. 7thespinoff.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8vote.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9waitangitribunal.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  10. 10action.greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers

Gemini

29%party websites

Had sources6of 6

Showed you a link0of 6

  1. 1facebook.com, social media, cited in 2 answers
  2. 2policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  3. 3waateanews.com, news, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4apex.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5en.wikipedia.org, other, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9maoriparty.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

38%news

Had sources5of 6

Showed you a link2of 6

  1. 1rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 4 answers
  2. 2policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 3 answers
  3. 3elections.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  4. 4govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5hansard.parliament.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7maoriparty.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9teaonews.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10vote.nz, government, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

21%party websites

Had sources5of 6

Showed you a link1of 6

  1. 1policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 4 answers
  2. 2facebook.com, social media, cited in 3 answers
  3. 3en.wikipedia.org, other, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5maoriparty.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7teaonews.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8vote.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9whichparty.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  10. 101news.co.nz, news, 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: 21 of this voter's 24 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.