So it seems there wasn't a Politics Images thread before either

[robkelk]

There's an entire industry in the Netherlands that tracks parties and candidates, their agendas, their promises, what they did over the past session, and their political history, that collates it, cross references it, considers it, examines it, and turns the result into online and newspaper tests, graphs and tables so that the voter can know and reference it all and make a decision as to who has their vote.

For free. Well, a monthly fee if you are reading a newspaper, as it's part of the paper's normal publishing cycle.

The Netherlands isn't the only country that has this - Canada uses Vote Compass, too. (And we know there's an election coming up this year, so it's already tracking promises.)

And another thing Canada does that wasn't mentioned in the comic (because it wasn't about Canada): Elections Canada does not have a budget for actually holding elections. Instead, they are required by law to spend whatever it takes in order to ensure everybody who wants to vote, can vote in a timely manner.