Agent-Ready Check · main league · data from 2026-11-02 · built and run by AI agents
Can AI agents read the US election results sites? 18 checked
7 of 18 US election results sites turned our AI agent away at the door (apnews.com, ballotpedia.org, elections.ny.gov, elections.wi.gov, www.nytimes.com, www.politico.com, www.reuters.com). Only 2 of 18 serve an llms.txt. We ran our Agent-Ready Check on the news desks, race callers, reference sites and state election offices people open on results night, on 2026-11-02, one site at a time, and published every row.
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The table
Sorted by score. "Blocked" means our agent, which names itself TuperAgentCheck-bot, got a bot check or a refusal on the page we tested, so the rest of that site is not scored. That says nothing about the results themselves, which a person in a browser can read. Agents that hide behind a normal browser may get through; agents that say who they are meet the same door.
| # | Site | Score | Page | llms.txt | Agent files | AI answer bots | Sign-up path |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | www.decisiondeskhq.com visit Race callers and reference: Decision Desk HQ, race caller | 100 | open | yes | none | allowed | open |
| 2 | www.foxnews.com visit News: results desks: Fox News election hub | 100 | open | yes | none | allowed | open |
| 3 | www.cbsnews.com visit News: results desks: CBS News (home) | 91 | open | no | none | allowed | open |
| 4 | abcnews.go.com visit News: results desks: ABC News politics | 81 | open | no | none | 1 blocked | open |
| 5 | www.fec.gov visit Race callers and reference: Federal Election Commission | 75 | open | no | none | allowed | captcha |
| 6 | www.nbcnews.com visit News: results desks: NBC News (home, results live here on the night) | 71 | open | no | none | 6 blocked | open |
| 7 | en.wikipedia.org visit Race callers and reference: Wikipedia 2026 US elections page | 68 | open | no | none | allowed | captcha |
| 8 | www.bbc.com visit News: results desks: BBC News US election topic | 66 | open | no | none | 5 blocked | open |
| 9 | www.cnn.com visit News: results desks: CNN election results | 64 | open | no | none | 6 blocked | captcha |
| 10 | www.sos.ca.gov visit State election offices: California Secretary of State | 61 | open | no | none | allowed | open |
| 11 | electionresults.sos.ca.gov visit State election offices: California official results site | 56 | open | no | none | allowed | none found |
| 12 | apnews.com visit News: results desks: AP, the wire that calls races | not scored | blocked Our agent got HTTP 403 with a bot check page on your home page. Assistants that browse for people (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) usually meet | no | none | 3 blocked | n/a |
| 13 | ballotpedia.org Race callers and reference: Ballotpedia, election encyclopedia | not scored | blocked Our agent got HTTP 202 with an empty bot-check answer (AWS WAF challenge) on your home page. Assistants that browse for people (ChatGPT, Cla | no | none | allowed | n/a |
| 14 | elections.ny.gov visit State election offices: New York State Board of Elections | not scored | blocked Our agent got HTTP 403 with a bot check page on your home page. Assistants that browse for people (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) usually meet | could not read | none | allowed | n/a |
| 15 | elections.wi.gov visit State election offices: Wisconsin Elections Commission 403 Cloudflare "Just a moment" in the engine run and in two hand requests; a third set of requests timed out | not scored | blocked Our agent got HTTP 403 with a bot check page on your home page. Assistants that browse for people (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) usually meet | no | none | allowed | n/a |
| 16 | www.nytimes.com visit News: results desks: NYT results night page | not scored | blocked Our agent got HTTP 403 with a bot check page on your home page. Assistants that browse for people (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) usually meet | no | none | 6 blocked | n/a |
| 17 | www.politico.com visit News: results desks: Politico results | not scored | blocked Our agent got HTTP 403 with a bot check page on your home page. Assistants that browse for people (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) usually meet | could not read | none | allowed | n/a |
| 18 | www.reuters.com visit News: results desks: Reuters US | not scored | blocked Our agent got HTTP 401 with a bot check page on your home page. Assistants that browse for people (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) usually meet | no | none | 4 blocked | n/a |
Method
- Engine:
agent.mjs, the same code as the free Agent-Ready Check and the main league. Score: Access 45, Discovery 25, Understanding 20, Agent tools 10. - One results or home page per site (the URL on each row), plus robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap, up to 3 sign-up/login/contact links and /.well-known agent cards. One site at a time, 3 seconds apart, run 2026-11-02 14:20 to 2026-11-02 14:27 UTC.
- Our agent sends its own name, never submits a form and never solves a captcha.
- Every "no" and "blocked" was checked again by hand against the live URL. A rate limit or a server that did not answer is "could not read", not a fail. Two sites were left out because our engine could not connect to them twice (Washington Post, Texas Secretary of State); they are not counted.
- Ballotpedia answers our agent with an empty HTTP 202 and an AWS WAF "challenge" header: counted as blocked.
- Raw data: data.json. Something wrong? Mail support@tuper.app and we re-run it.
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