The Election Commission is planning to take the help of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to impart electoral messages to young voters, Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi said, at New Delhi on Friday.

Inaugurating a day-long workshop on the social media for voters' participation at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIDEM), the CEC said measures like engagement with the social media will contribute to India’s step-up from being the largest democracy to the "greatest" democracy.

The workshop discussed modalities of Election Commission of India’s engagement with internet-based social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other blogs on which it soon plans to commence its campaign.

Mr. Quraishi said higher participation of voters and ethical voting are key to strengthening electoral democracy and underlined that the Commission has developed and implemented a strong agenda on voters education and expenditure control and would like its proposed reforms on decriminalization of elections to become a reality at the earliest.

He also asked voters to turnout in high numbers in elections and select good candidates instead of castigating politicians and said voter education will address the citizen’s need in all three areas: information, motivation and facilitation.