Poll communication must be simple and legally accurate: CEC

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar urged Election Commission media officers to ensure poll-related communication is timely, factual, simple, and legally accurate. A conference discussed election communication strategies, misinformation challenges, electoral processes, and public outreach ahead of upcoming polls

New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Friday told nodal media officers of the Election Commission that poll-related communication should be timely, simple, factual, and legally accurate.

He also noted that the recently concluded elections in four states and a union territory witnessed unprecedented public participation since Independence.

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He was addressing a one-day conference organised for the media and communication officers from all 36 states and Union Territories, particularly from poll-bound states and those undergoing Phase-III of the Special Intensive Revision.

Election Commissioner Sukhbir Singh Sandhu stressed that communication efforts should focus on impact rather than merely inputs.

Election Commissioner Vivek Joshi highlighted the crucial role of officers in conveying the commission’s rules, instructions, and guidelines to the public in an understandable manner.

The conference included sessions on communication strategies throughout the election cycle. Issues such as electoral rolls, polling processes, and EC’s digital platform ECINET also came up for discussion.

Constitutional provisions, election laws, and recent Supreme Court orders were also discussed, including countering misinformation and misleading narratives.