Election Commission to Deploy Volunteers Across All Wards for Voter Education

Kathmandu. The Election Commission is set to deploy volunteers across all wards nationwide for voter education. The Commission announced that volunteers will be assigned to all 6,743 wards across the country through the District Election Offices.

The process for appointing volunteers for voter education has begun, selecting experienced individuals from among Child Development Facilitators, Maternal and Child Health Workers, Female Health Volunteers, or Community Service Center Operators, informed Kul Bahadur GC, Assistant Spokesperson for the Commission.

The Commission approved the voter education program on Magh 19. Assistant Spokesperson GC stated that the volunteers will be mobilized focusing solely on voter education, ensuring that they educate voters in a manner that prevents invalid votes.

The Commission recognized the need for voter education partly because votes cast during the National Assembly member elections were also invalidated. Preparations are underway to select and appoint the voter education volunteers and provide them with training across all seven provinces on Falgun 3. Following the training, the volunteers are scheduled to be deployed to all 6,743 wards in 753 local levels nationwide by the first week of Falgun, the Commission stated.