The web based assistant (Stemwijzer.nl) has been around for some time. But with these elections, the different party's opinions were limited to the active discussion in the Netherlands.
Example: You are an atheist, but Stemwijzer.nl says you should vote for some Christian party because they have the same opinion as you do. The only problem here is that this Christian party ALSO has an opinion about abortian, drug policy etc... that you do NOT agree with. But Stemwijzer.nl only shows the active discussions in NL, so this opinion isn't included in the advice.
I believe that that is the reason why so many people got weird results. I know I did. But I didn't act on it! But somehow I think that many other people did.
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The web based assistant (Stemwijzer.nl) has been around for some time. But with these elections, the different party's opinions were limited to the active discussion in the Netherlands. Example: You are an atheist, but Stemwijzer.nl says you should vote for some Christian party because they have the same opinion as you do. The only problem here is that this Christian party ALSO has an opinion about abortian, drug policy etc... that you do NOT agree with. But Stemwijzer.nl only shows the active discussions in NL, so this opinion isn't included in the advice. I believe that that is the reason why so many people got weird results. I know I did. But I didn't act on it! But somehow I think that many other people did.