In preparation for the Nov. 7 gubernatorial election, the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts — a nonpartisan group that advocates voting through proper education — drafted a Massachusetts Bill of Responsibility to spur a greater citizen turnout on Election Day.

The bill was unveiled Oct. 13 as a follow-up to 2004’s Massachusetts Voter’s Bill of Rights, which was signed by Gov. Mitt Romney and Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin.

This year’s bill outlines 14 basic responsibilities voters should follow, including “getting registered to vote before the deadline, filling out the registration form accurately, keeping their address current at their local election office, knowing where their polling place is, and reporting any violations of election laws to the proper authorities,” according to a press release on the LWV website.

“We want [citizens] to know that, yes, they have the right, but they also have the responsibility to vote,” said Madhu Sridhar, the president of the League of Women’s voters. “One very important detail is that they have a deadline and they need to make that deadline.”

Sridhar said the LVW drafted the bill “to ensure that everyone who wants to vote can.”

“We want to educate people, especially students, first-time voters and citizens in unrepresented communities,” she said.

By law, last year’s Bill of Rights is posted in every polling place in the state, in the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s official election guide and on the election’s website, according an Oct. 11 press release. Although the deadline for registration for this year’s Nov. 7 election has already passed, the LWV remains optimistic the Bill of Responsibilities will be helpful to inexperienced voters in the future.

“The bill will be available in many different languages including Chinese, Spanish and Russian,” Sridhar said. “We want to try to reach out to those who want to get a chance to vote but don’t know how to do it.”

Although Sridhar said the bill will “absolutely” help voting rates, Brian McNiff, the spokesperson for Secretary Gavin — who cosigned the bill with Sridhar — said much of the bill is “common sense.”

“I think it’s a good thing and I think it’ll help inform people,” he said, “but voting isn’t really that difficult.

“It outlines most of what voters are responsible for in going to the polls,” he continued, “to register to vote 20 days before the election, to return the census form to keep their status active, to re-register if there’s a change of address or community and to bring proper identification if it is their first time.”