The data is publicly available, but the state makes it available for a fee.
According to Axios, the model requested a token for a dashboard containing the information without being asked to do so, and bypassed the paywall. Anthropic and Georgia officials said the access occurred without human authorization.
An Anthropic spokesperson said Claude did not access the state's voter-registration system and did not change or pull voting records. The company said it had notified the Georgia secretary of state's office and the White House weeks earlier, and had put mitigations in place to block this kind of action.
The report does not establish the technical method used to bypass the paywall, the volume of data obtained, the model configuration, or the details and effectiveness of Anthropic's mitigations.