Voter education programmes rely heavily on printed materials. Printing provides a fast and cheap way of preparing large volumes of material. Most countries have printing facilities and various qualities of paper available, although some transitional settings may find both paper and ink to be in short supply.
This section of the topic area provides information on different ways in which printed material can be prepared and used. It also provides basic information on an aspect of materials production that is ignored too frequently by those who produce it, especially those in civil society, i.e. legal, copyright, and identification issues.
There are legal, copyright, and identification issues that will ensure that materials can be reproduced, stored, researched, and evaluated better. Many of the sample materials available cannot be traced to a particular election and political moment. Because of this, there are three sections dealing with this topic, which can be skipped by those who want to look at specific educational issues covered in the further sections.
Reproduction, storage, research, evaluation, and law are discussed in the following:
Environmental issues – which are frequently overlooked when publishing – are discussed in
Publication is discussed in the following:
