But why would the voters be less interested in whether politicians violate promises if they follow the advice of VAA's?
The VAA doesn't give the voter Alice any information about whether the politician held the promises they made 4 years ago. At least I'm not aware of a VAA that does this.
For many political promises it's not trivial to judge whether or not the politician holds a promise. It's often a qualitative judgement for which you need a trusted authority Carol. Any Carol that serves as such an authority is going to be attacked for perceived bias when Carol says that the politician of the Green party hold their promises more often than the politicians of the Blue party. Bootstrapping the trust relationship between Alice and Carol so that Alice can trust Carol to make honest judgements isn't trival.
A lot of existing parties that run VAA like the German "Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung" also want to stay political neutral and can't afford to pick the political battles that come with saying that one party is holding their promises more than another party.
VAA also focus on equal treatment of politicians. You can't treat politicians who never held office equally to politicians who do when it comes to judging whether they uphold promises. Judging whether promises are held for the majority party than can pass laws and the minority party that can't pass laws is also not trival.
You need a Carol that does value judgements and you can't just shut up and calculate.
The VAA doesn't give the voter Alice any information about whether the politician held the promises they made 4 years ago. At least I'm not aware of a VAA that does this.
No, but that's in effect what I'm suggesting the VAA's should do in my previous comment.
It's true that it is not always trivial to judge whether or not a politician has held his/her promise. Of course, the more exact the promises are written, the easier it becomes, but there will always be room for interpretation. (This we know from the legal sphere, in particular.)
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