The Federal Agency for Civic Education has offered the Wahl-O-Mat since 2002. It compares a voter’s answers on a list of political statements with the answers of the parties. For the federal election of 2025 it had 38 statements. Each party could add a reason of up to 500 characters to each answer. Users can read these reasons on pages such as Begründungen zu den Thesen, reasons for the statements. The answers come directly from the parties.