Voting Guide, Voting Compass, Chatbot: How Useful Can a Voting Aid Be?

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Should more owner-occupied homes or more social housing be built? Should taxes on polluting companies be raised? Should the Netherlands stop supplying weapons to Israel? With four weeks until the elections, voters can once again consult online voting aids. The Voting Compass went online on Monday, the Voting Guide launches today, and voters can also use the Voting Checker, for example. The first two are based on the election manifestos and parti…

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The ProDemos Voting Guide, which can help people make a choice in the upcoming elections, went online on Wednesday. As usual, party leaders and other candidates were the first to complete it. While some politicians had some issues in previous years, this time they all achieved a 100 percent score, although they still found some questions difficult.

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Yesterday, the Voting Compass for the 2025 House of Representatives elections went online. Four years ago, I wrote a critical piece about this popular voting aid. The Voting Compass was flawed on at least these points: 1) the spatial model did not accurately represent the party space, and 2) the Voting Compass incorrectly used variable items to reflect changes due to the […]