The
notion of "pre-campaign" of course presupposes that there is a
specified campaign period. Some countries, such as the United States,
effectively impose no limits on the time of campaigning. Of course, in many
systems, there may be little gap between different sets of elections:
presidential, legislative, local, or provincial - even, in the case of the
European Union, supranational.
But
under any electoral system, there are issues that relate to elections and the
media that occur, essentially, in the months leading up to elections. These are
primarily:
- Candidate nomination
- Voter registration
- Voter information, voter education and civic education
There might also be other
pre-campaign tasks such as boundary delimitation, establishing electoral legal
frameworks, population censuses, and so forth.
The EMB will need to communicate to the public, through the media, on
all these issues.
