How to communicate as a CSO in the run-up to elections - 3 tips!
The next few days will be all about the elections, and as a CSO it is particularly important that we use the right voice if we want to communicate about the elections. We want to maintain our credibility and reach our target audience with relevant and up-to-date content, while not making our message either forced or didactic.
Here are three ways to do this:
1. Make an informed decision!
Create your own content: emphasise the importance of conscious action on social media platforms! Make it clear that whatever your followers decide, the most important thing is that they make a considered decision as responsible citizens. Use the hashtag #tudatosdontes (consciousdecision)!
Put up the dedicated FB posts of Civilisation! The first one has already been published and the other two will be posted on Civilisation's Facebook page this week, feel free to share them! You can even upload any of them yourself as your own post on your page: you can download all three here.
2. Fair vote!
Help your followers to identify, prevent and report electoral abuse when necessary! Show them www.tisztaszavazas.hu, which voters can use to, among other things:
find out what constitutes electoral malpractice and how to report it if you experience it
learn to recognise attempts to influence: in an interactive escape room game to avoid all traps and get to the polls
draw a constituency map to learn about the phenomenon of gerrymandering, a biased redrawing of constituencies
3. Referendum invalid!
Join the campaign of Háttér Society and Amnesty International and ask your followers to vote invalidly in the homophobic propaganda referendum! To do so, share the related Facebook event or www.ervenytelenul.hu and the content and videos available there.
We hope you find our special election newsletter helpful! Thank you for reading us and working with us for a livable Hungary, where caring for our communities, protecting the vulnerable and nurturing nature are our common cause.
