The OSCE (The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) and the Ukrainian Central Election Commission (CEC) are conducting a campaign to create an updated state register of Ukrainian voters.
The campaign is aimed at drawing voters’ attention to the importance of updating the state register of voters with precise and relevant information.
As Lubomir Kopaj, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, said, the campaign consists of two blocks – an audio-visual advertising and a print one.
The first includes advertising on TV, radio spots and in the Internet.
The print one is advertising on 250 billboards across Ukraine, on posters at universities and colleges, at agencies that are engaged in keeping the state register of voters, as well as at bus terminals. Moreover, flyers will be disseminated at the places popular with the youth and advertisements will be published in the press, broadcasted in railway cars and public transport.
The OSCE stresses that the target audience are all the voters of Ukraine, yet, the main focus will be on young people and in-country migrants whose place of residence does not coincide with the place of registration.
The campaign will last until September 20 and is to call on voters to check their data in the personal message they are to receive by September 10, 2009. If a voter does not get a personal message or the data he or she receives are incorrect, he or she should turn to a local register keeping agency to update the information.
