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Voter S21 · one of 23 households

Migrant who has recently become a citizen

“I migrated to New Zealand, have recently become a citizen and am eligible to vote. I work here, use English as a second language and want to understand both my options and the system.”

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.

  • PF110

    Democratic institutions and rights

    I migrated to New Zealand, have recently become a citizen and am eligible to vote. I work here, use English as a second language and want to understand both my options and the system. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Can you explain my two votes and how a government is formed in plain English?

    4 answers

  • PF111

    Immigration

    I migrated to New Zealand, have recently become a citizen and am eligible to vote. I work here, use English as a second language and want to understand both my options and the system. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties compare on settlement support and rules affecting migrants who want family members to join them?

    4 answers

  • PF112

    Jobs and unemployment

    I migrated to New Zealand, have recently become a citizen and am eligible to vote. I work here, use English as a second language and want to understand both my options and the system. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What do parties say about recognising overseas qualifications and fair employment opportunities?

    4 answers

  • PF113

    Te Tiriti and Māori–Crown relations

    I migrated to New Zealand, have recently become a citizen and am eligible to vote. I work here, use English as a second language and want to understand both my options and the system. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Can you explain how parties differ on racial discrimination, equal treatment and Te Tiriti without assuming I already know the debate?

    4 answers

  • PF114

    Cost of living

    I migrated to New Zealand, have recently become a citizen and am eligible to vote. I work here, use English as a second language and want to understand both my options and the system. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What are parties proposing about everyday living costs for working households?

    4 answers
02 · Parties named

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

Of the 20 answers this voter received, 12 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. Te Pāti Māori was named least often, in 8 of 20.

Answers naming each party, out of 20

  • National18 of 20 answers
  • Labour18 of 20 answers
  • Greens15 of 20 answers
  • ACT18 of 20 answers
  • NZ First16 of 20 answers
  • Te Pāti Māori8 of 20 answers
  • Opportunity3 of 20 answers

  • ChatGPT

    2 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

  • Gemini

    2 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

  • Google AI Mode

    3 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

  • AI Overviews

    1 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.

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

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
Democratic institutions and rights
Immigration
Jobs and unemployment
Te Tiriti and Māori–Crown relations
Cost of living
04 · What they were told

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

The new citizen asks for plain-English electoral mechanics. PF110 answers explain a party vote and a local candidate vote, but ChatGPT says the voter receives two voting papers. Gemini, AI Mode and AI Overviews describe the two choices on one paper. The official voting instructions support the one-paper account, as documented in the report's accuracy register.

This is a useful case precisely because the surrounding response is reassuring and contains official links. A citation-rich answer can still contain a concrete procedural error. The error should be recorded at the level of the claim, not used to dismiss every explanation in the response or label the platform uniformly inaccurate.

The other questions cover immigration, employment, Te Tiriti and costs. Becoming a citizen does not make immigration the only relevant issue. Plain language and acknowledgement of the person's situation are positive features, but actual comprehension was not tested with participants and cannot be inferred from tone alone.

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

48%party websites

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link5of 5

  1. 1elections.nz, government, cited in 4 answers
  2. 2act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  3. 3greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  4. 4labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  5. 5national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  6. 6nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  7. 7govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8immigration.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9archives.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10justice.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers

Gemini

22%government

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link1of 5

  1. 1policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 3 answers
  2. 2ammlaw.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  3. 3awaaz.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  4. 4elections.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5electoral-reform.org.uk, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6etu.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7facebook.com, social media, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8nothandco.com, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10opportunity.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

26%news

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link2of 5

  1. 1elections.nz, government, cited in 3 answers
  2. 2en.wikipedia.org, other, cited in 2 answers
  3. 3labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4livinginnz.co.nz, businesses, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  6. 61news.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9newstalkzb.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

33%news

Had sources3of 5

Showed you a link1of 5

  1. 1policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 3 answers
  2. 2whichparty.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  3. 31news.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  4. 4en.wikipedia.org, other, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5facebook.com, social media, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7inclusiveworld.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8kpmg.com, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10livinginnz.co.nz, businesses, 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: 18 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.