Fiji's elections office is confident its voter education programme will lead to a dramatic cut in the number of spoiled ballots at this year's election.
Fiji's last election had the highest proportion of invalid ballots of any election in the world.
The media relations officer for the Supervisor of Elections, Melini Torowale, says 500-thousand registered to vote in 2001, but many couldn't vote properly.
"That is one of the main objectives is to reduce the number of invalid ballot papers, we'd like to reduce that by 90 per cent. For those who voted, 87,000 were invalid."
The Alternative Vote system gives people the option of voting for one party, or voting for a series of candidates in order of preference.
Voters avoid the system of political party alliances and appear to have more power if they vote for a series of candidates.
But the election office says it can only tell people about the options available, and not whether party or candidate option gives the voter more power.
