Kathmandu, June 9: The Election Commission of Nepal (ECN) has launched voter education campaign in 41 districts across province no 1, 2, 5 and 7 with a special focus on educating voters to vote in a right way.
The second phase of local level election is being held on June 28 while the first one was held on May 14. The Commission has also demanded progress report from the voter education volunteers who visited the voters door-to-door to impart knowledge and idea on the voter education during the first phase of election.
The ECN has come up with an ingenious way to bring down the number of invalid votes as in the first phase. It will put on display the ballot paper at the place for three days where the voters would come to collect their voters’ identity card.
As per the preliminary estimation of the ECN, some 2-3 per cent of total ballot cast in the first election were rendered invalid.
Big ballot paper, tricky electoral symbols and lack of voter education and legal provisions among others are assumed to have contributed to the invalid votes.
Commission’s Joint-Secretary Nabaraj Dhakal said that the musical events and dramas would be staged to impart voter education.
Furthermore, the voters would be educated about voting it in right way in their lingua franca and information relating to election would be disseminated in various local languages, Joint-Secretary Dhakal said.
The Commission has tied up with the UNO’s system and would mobilize volunteers from community organizations as well as NGOs in view of the voters education.
The validly marked ballot paper would be published in several media towards this end. There are altogether 9,097,557 voters registered for the second phase of election. The ECN will mobilize voter education volunteers in total 11,833 polling centres. RSS
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