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Voter Education Campaign in Tajikistan
Before Tajikistan’s presidential elections in 2013, the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, in co-operation with the Central Commission for Elections and Referenda conducted a door-to-door, person-to-person voter education campaign throughout the country.
The campaign targeted women and potential first-time voters. From 22 October until 4 November, 60 voter educators reached 115,037 voters explaining procedures for casting a ballot and that proxy voting is prohibited.
Covering the capital’s green markets and busiest thoroughfares, voter educators reached over 56,000 people in Dushanbe. Many merchants, like the one speaking with Faribo Gafurova (l) agreed to display the campaign poster on their stands and shops. (Muhsin Abidjanov)
During a rest break at the “Rustam” collective farm, voter educators (l) from Qabodion district met with cotton field workers and described the identity document they would need to present at the voting place. (OSCE)
Walking alongside cotton fields in villages outside Vose, Voter educator Emomjafar Ashurov (r) stopped harvesters along the way, and described procedures for casting ballots. (Jamshedi Davlat)
Voter educators, like Boymat Tavarov (r) in Bokhtar district, went door-to-door in communities across Tajikistan explaining the voting process and discouraging family voting. (Lobar Sidikova)
Agricultural workers at the “Mirvaisi Kiron” collective farm asked whether they could vote on behalf of family members who work abroad as migrant labourers. Voter educator Mastura Mamadsaidova (l) explained that each voter may only cast his or her own vote. (Mavjuda Bozorova)