INEC Reviews Voter Manual To Improve Turnout During Elections

• INEC
• The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is currently reviewing its Voter Education Manual with a view to designing better voter education messages that will improve citizen’s participation in the nation’s electoral process.

The National Commissioner and Chairman (Information and Voter Education Committee), Festus Okoye, disclosed this on Saturday.

A statement by INEC’s Assistant Director (Publicity), Chinwe Ogbuka, quoted Okoye as speaking at the closing ceremony of a five-day workshop for the review of INEC Voter Education Manual held in Keffi, Nasarawa State, Eko hot blog gathered.

“INEC Voter Education Manual is being reviewed by the Department of Voter Education and Publicity with the aim of identifying and including best methods of designing voter education messages to increase citizens participation in the electoral process.

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“For the commission to achieve the concerns enumerated above, Okoye challenged the department to design new, creative and innovate messages that would address the electoral concerns and challenges of the Youth and Students population,” the statement read.

Okoye reminded those saddled with the review that in designing voter education messages, they must be able to compete effectively on the social media and “our narratives and messages must be clear, concise and believable.”

He said while designing voter education messages, “INEC must take on board societal changes and dynamics.”

He urged the participants to design new methodologies of delivering civic and voter education in the context of a pandemic.

Okoye informed participants that INEC had resolved to sustain the momentum of the successes recorded in the Edo and Ondo governorship elections and also increase voter turnout in elections through the provision of access to the polling units.