The election administration task that is most likely to be conducted by political parties is voter education, see Social Capital. This can include explaining the importance of voting, the secrecy of the ballot, the procedures of voting, and, in general, reassuring voters of the 'freeness and fairness' of the process. On one hand, the nature of voter education should be non-partisan. On the other hand, it is the parties who, through their campaigning, often have not only the closest contact with the voters, but also a strong interest in motivating and instructing voters to use their vote correctly.
The ability of political parties to conduct such educational campaigns is of course resource related. In a country such as Liberia, parties do not have resources to even consider any 'extras' above and beyond their own activities. However, in some established democracies, such as Sweden and the US, and even newer democracies such as South Africa, parties are expected to conduct informative as well as motivational voter education campaigns. The onus for encouraging registration (US), or for increasing voter turnout is thought to be on the parties, with an expectation that this be done to a certain extent 'generically'; that is, regardless of how the citizen will vote.
There is a difference between the kind of training and voter education one might expect a party organization to arrange and that of a neutral authority devoted to public education. The main job of a party is to try to win votes and its educational efforts should not be devoted to general 'civics', but rather to train its members and activists in their campaigning tasks: how to address public meetings, how to conduct a house to house canvas, how to present the party's policies, how to mark a ballot correctly in their favour, etc. In other words, the parties are involved in training in partisanship, whereas general education in civics will be about non-partisan matters such as the virtues of voting, etc.
Parties conducting voter education will usually concentrate on educating voters in those aspects of electioneering that that will win them votes. For instance, they may encourage their potential supporters to register and to ensure they are correctly entered on the voters list; or, where there is a complicated ballot, or illiteracy, parties may train their supporters in the mechanics of filling out their ballots (i.e. vote for the bull symbol, or vote for numbers 13 and 17, etc.). In addition, they may well concentrate their motivational campaigns in areas or among constituencies deemed most likely to be supportive.
