why wasnt the voters education for election of member of federal parliament and provincial assembly 2074,Nepal effective as expected
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Educating a voter about electoral process is termed as Voter Education. Latest digital technologies and social media are playing a vital role in Voter Education. Voter education is generally carried out by an electoral authority and is arranged to inform potential voters in advance of the each Election Day. All potential voters and stakeholders—men, women and others are informed about their rights and responsibilities, their political system, who are eligible to vote; where and how to register; how electors can check the voter lists to ensure they have been duly included; what type of elections are being held; where, when and how to vote; who the candidates are; and how to file complaints, value of each vote, secrecy of casted vote and criteria of valid/ invalid vote etc.. It is necessary to ensure free, fair, transparent and credible elections.
There are different ways to educate voters depending on time and technology advancement. Voter education was previously done with pamphlets, posters and wall painting; gradually changed to radio, television and newspapers and now-a-days digital and social media. Electoral authority has also taken major steps to reduce the use of pamphlets, posters and wall painting because it distorts the beauty of city/village. Digital and social media are becoming strong communication tools after availability of Internet to reach voters and stakeholder at large scale with minimum cost, labor and time.
The Constitution of Nepal declared Nepal as a federal democratic republican state with three levels of government: federal, provincial and local. After promulgation of new Constitution by Constituent Assembly dated Asoj 3, 2072 (Sep. 20, 2015), all three tiers of elections namely local level, provincial level and federal level elections are to be conducted before Magh 7, 2074 (Jan. 21, 2018). ECN as per mandate given by Constitution of Nepal has successfully conducted all three tiers of election scheduled on different dates of year 2074 (B.S.) with a great effort before the due date. This is an historic achievement in the history of ECN. Because this was the first time in the history of Nepal that so many elections were held in the same year 2074. So, the year 2074 is also remembered as Election Year.
The local level election was held at three phases dated Baisakh 31, 2074 (14 May 2017), Asar 14, 2074 (June 28, 2014) and Asoj 2, 2074(Sep 18, 2017). There were about 14.1 million voters for local level election out of which about 68% voters had casted their votes. Similarly, federal and provincial elections were held at two phases dated Mangsir 10, 2074 (November 26, 2017) and Mansir 21, 2074 (December 07, 2017). There were about 15.4 million voters for federal and provincial elections out of which about 69% voters had casted their votes and 2,056 voters for National Assembly Election (NAE) held on Magh 24, 2074 (Feb 07, 2018) out of which 99.52 % voters had casted their votes.