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Mpumalanga Province Report
A Technical Resources Group (UK) provincial resource officer named Barbara Miller wrote this “Mpumalanga Province Report” that highlights her role in the province as well as how her team functioned with the Communication and Voter Education Task Team she was assigned with in South Africa. The report, which covers the days from March 20th 1995 to November 6th 1995, provides details on Miller’s preparations for the upcoming November 1st, 1995 local government elections.
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Communicating with your Elected Officials: 104th Congress & State Governors 1995-1996
“Communicating with Your Elected Officials 104th Congress and State Governors 1995-1996,” is a brochure that was geared at educating voters on how to best communicate with their state government and congressional representative. The brochure includes six sections including a section on how to vote with an absentee ballot and a section that describes how to best contact your congressional representative.
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1995 Fairfax County Voter Registration Winter Schedule
“1995 Fairfax County Voter Registration Winter Schedule” is a flyer made available by the County of Fairfax Office of the General Registrar in 1995 which lists the locations and opening times when citizens of Fairfax, Virginia, can register to vote in the upcoming special and general elections in 1995.
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1995 Voter Information Guide
“1995 Voter Information Guide” is a voter handbook prepared in 1995 by Bob Taft, the Secretary of State of Ohio, in lead up to the May 2, 1995 Primary Election and the November 7, 1995 General Election. The guide is meant to provide voters with information about registering and voting, absentee voting including the armed services absentee voting, to inform them about their rights as voters and the procedures that lead to a correct exercise of voting. It also provides short descriptions of each one of the offices for which Ohio voters will express their votes.
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The Election Watch
This issue of Election Watch in South Africa analyzes voter registration in depth prior to the 1995 local government elections. It includes a section focusing on the province of Kwazulu Natal, and considers measures to combat low voter registration.
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The Next Step: Why are we voting again
The Next Step features a dialogue between two families in order to highlight the prevailing needs of South Africans in advance of the 1995 local government elections. The document also provides basic information about the role and functioning of the Reconstruction and Development Program and an overview of national, provincial, and local government.
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There is only one democractic way to get what you want
This poster was created on the eve of the November 1, 1995 local elections and urges South Africans to vote in order to secure better social and municipal services. There is also a version of the poster that was printed in Tsonga.
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Transition and the Constitution
“Transition and the Constitution” is a 1995 publication that was distributed in the wake of the 1994 South African national elections. The piece provides a training manual to be used by educators in workshops on South Africa’s interim constitution and new government. The workshops were intended to allow participants to glean knowledge of the new constitution as well as new governmental structures and have a clearer picture of the African National Congress' “Reconstruction and Development Programme” (RDP).
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Wired for Democracy: Using Emerging Technology to Educate Voters
Provided by the League of Women Voters Education Fund in 1995, this essay entitled, “Wired for Democracy: Using Emerging Technology to Educate Voters” argues for the implementation of new technology in election systems. Written by Ellen Weir, this paper focuses on bypassing traditional media, pilot projects currently in place, future technologies, and the impact new technology has had in the past elections as well its potential for the upcoming 1996 presidential elections.
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Your Guide to the Local Government Elections
“Your Guide to the Local Government Election” provides information to South African voters explaining the importance of local governance and what the registration and voting process is like. The book was issued in response to survey data that suggested many first time South African voters lacked a clear understanding of the election process. The 1995 publication was made possible in part by USAID, the European Community and the International Development and Research Center.