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Getting started

This section provides straightforward advice to help you promote electoral awareness in your area. From writing in plain English to targeting young people, we have provided practical information and downloadable templates to complement your work.

Please choose from the following categories:

• General advice: Includes information on planning and evaluating your work, accessible writing and dealing with the media.
• Disabled people: Ideas to ensure that disabled people in your area know how to register and vote in elections.
• Black and minority ethnic communities: Looks at some of the steps electoral administrators and other practitioners can take to ensure that people from ethnic minority groups have every opportunity to participate in the electoral process.
• Service voters: Ideas for electoral administrators to encourage service personnel and their families to register to vote.
• Young people: Techniques to bring politics alive and get young people thinking about how politics affects them.