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EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

Summary

Voter education campaigns should be designed with the aim of reaching all eligible voters.


Obligations

  • Right and Opportunity to Vote

Election Parts

  • Voter Education

Issues

  • Universal Suffrage, the Right to Vote, and Voter Education

Criteria

  • Voter education campaigns were responsive to the needs of the electorate

Quotes

  • [Voter education] should be provided to all eligible voters, and special efforts should be made to target traditionally disaffected segments of the population.
  • Monitoring voter-education and public information campaigns will also provide useful knowledge about the level of information that is made available to national minorities, whether this information is provided in minority languages and whether it includes any element of bias.
  • ...[I]nformation should be made available to all eligible voters including traditionally disenfranchised segments of the population (e.g. minorities).
EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

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