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Wahl-o-mat and Electoral Compass - voting advice websites

Today I want to talk about two very interesting websites, that I really recommend to everybody. The Wahl-o-mat and its American equivalent the Electoral Compass are both voting advice websites. The original idea was established at the University of Amsterdam. In general it is really interesting to try out both of them and to see what parties are most likely to represent once interests.
When I did the german test, my results showed me the ranking 1. Die Grünen 2. Die Linke 3. CDU which is really close to where I see myself. In terms of the Electoral Compass I'm located between economic left and social liberalism. The politician that I had most questions in common with is Bill Richardson.
Also interesting about the two sites is that the topics that were questioned about, were sometimes totally different and sometimes nearly the same. For incidence issues as environment or immigration seemed to be similar concerns in both country's. Issues as gun-control or health-care differ in fundamental regulations and laws of the country,which is why questions about these problems go in totally different directions.
However, two very neat pages that animates people to think more about certain topics, to make up their mind about different issues and to learn about the interests and positions of the important parties.

Please check out the pages and have fun!