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Social media platform Twitter today announced a series of initiatives to ensure "high voter turnout and engage voters" ahead of the Assembly polls across five states in India. Some of these initiatives are election search prompt with Election Commission of India, custom emoji, notification campaign, and voter education quiz to support voter literacy.
"Be a #JagrukVoter by joining the election conversation using #AssemblyElections2022 and other related hashtags. Like this Tweet to set a reminder for the first day of polling #AssemblyPolls2022," tweeted official handle of Twitter India.
The Assembly elections in key states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa will be held between February 10 and March 7 in seven phases, while counting of the votes will be held on March 10. Polls will be held across a total of 690 Assembly seats, and 18.3 crore people will exercise their franchise in these elections.
"Elections are when people come to Twitter to find credible information about voting, to learn about candidates and their manifestos, and to engage in healthy civic debate and conversation. As a service for public conversation, Twitter is committed to enabling people to make informed decisions when exercising their civic rights," Twitter said in a statement.
Twitter's initiatives, powered by an Open Internet, are directed towards not just ensuring a high voter turnout but also aiding in ensuring voters are involved, engaged and informed throughout the election cycle, it added. As part of the initiatives, Twitter will launch a customised emoji that will further be supported with a notification and reminder mechanism, which will allow people to voluntarily sign-up for reminders on the day voting starts. Further, a voter education quiz will engage people in Q&As, equipping them with necessary facts about the polls, the statement said.
Twitter said it has launched an information search prompt with the Election Commission of India and Chief Electoral Officers to make it easy to find credible and authoritative information for the Assembly elections.
With PTI inputs
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