Candidates, voters, and voting advice applications

Abstract Voters often face a complex information environment with many options when they vote in elections. Research on democratic representation has traditionally been skeptical about voters’ ability to navigate this complexity. However, voting advice applications (VAAs) offer voters shortcut compare their own preferences across numerous issues those of large number political candidates. As VAAs become more prevalent, it is critical understand whether and how use them vote. We analyze VAA users process district candidates original survey data from the 2019 Danish parliamentary election collaboration administrators one most widely used VAAs. The results demonstrate that have substantively effects users’ choices between parties within parties.