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King v. Whitmer
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election machines and software filed against
Powell and her company, Defending the Republic,
Inc.: U.S. Dominion, Inc. v. Powell, No. 1:21-cv00040 (D.D.C. filed Jan.
- Question Presented
- Whether to impose sanctions on the Plaintiff’s attorneys for filing frivolous litigation in violation of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Frivolous Litigation
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Aug 25, 2021
Judgment
Odhiambo Oduol v. Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether petitioner’s affidavit verifying a video recording meets the evidentiary burden outlined in Section 107 of the Evidence Act relating to electronic evidence.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Country
- Kenya
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 5, 2013
Judgment
Ochieng' v. Orange Democratic Movement
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Maxwel Ochieng’ & another v Orange Democratic Movement [2017] eKLR
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
POLITICAL PARTIES DISPUTES TRIBUNAL
COMPLAINT NO. 191 OF 2017 CONSOLIDATED
WITH COMPLAINT
- Question Presented
- Was the respondent's nomination free, fair, and credible? Should the election be annulled when the respondents locked themselves in a room with the ballot boxes and papers, preventing the petitioner from entering?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Country
- Kenya
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- May 14, 2017
Judgment
Domingo v. Commission on Elections
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On 10 February 2007, Republic Act No. 9369[33] took effect. Section 13
of Republic Act No. 9369 amended Section 11 of Republic Act No. 8436 and
renumbered
- Question Presented
- Whether there was sufficient evidence to conclude that the incumbent mayor prodded potential Board of Election Inspectors for the City?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Electoral Integrity
- EMB Independence
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Phillippines
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Dec 1, 1998
Judgment
Samuel v. Chief Electoral Officer et al.
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1 2018
IN THE HIGH COURT
OF THE
REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
MUDGE SAMUEL,
Appellant Samuel,
V.
·)
)
)
)
REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
CNIL ACTION NO
- Question Presented
- (1) Whether Chief Electoral Officer (“CEO”) erred in rejecting a candidate’s request for a re-count due to a close mayoral race with 3,25% of vote difference and alleged violations? (2) Whether the refusal to add a name of a voter to the voter registry beyond the deadline for voter registration can be raised as a class action to protect the rights of voters?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Marshall Islands
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Aug 31, 2018
Judgment
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
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officials accountable to the people. See
Buckley, supra, at 14–15 (“In a republic where the people
are sovereign, the ability of the citizenry to make informed
- Question Presented
- 1) Did the Supreme Court's decision in McConnell resolve all constitutional as-applied challenges to the BCRA when it upheld the disclosure requirements of the statute as constitutional? 2) Do the BCRA's disclosure requirements impose an unconstitutional burden when applied to electioneering requirements because they are protected "political speech" and not subject to regulation as "campaign speech"? 3) If a communication lacks a clear plea to vote for or against a particular candidate, is it subject to regulation under the BCRA? 4) Should a feature length documentary about a candidate for political office be treated like the advertisements at issue in McConnell and therefore be subject to regulation under the BCRA?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Jan 21, 2010
Judgment
APDH v. Cote d'Ivoire
Alleged Acts
The plaintiff alleges that allowance of the a person representative of the President of the Republic
- Question Presented
- Whether the composition of the IEC is in conformity with the Constitution.
- Legal Issue(s)
- EMB Independence
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Ivory Coast
- Language of Decision
- English
- French
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Nov 18, 2016
Judgment
Tanganyika Law Society v. Tanzania
Procedural history
The National Assembly of the United Republic of Tanzania passed a law requiring all candidates for Presidential
- Question Presented
- Whether the Tanzania regulation prohibiting independent candidates from seeking public office is unconstitutional?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Tanzania. United Republic of
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 14, 2019
Judgment
Bush v. Gore
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” D. Loth, Chief Justice John Marshall and The
Growth of the American Republic 365 (1948). But we do
risk a self-inflicted wound—a wound that may harm
- Question Presented
- Did the Florida Supreme Court violate Article II Section 1 Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution by making new election law? Do standardless manual recounts violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Constitution?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Dec 12, 2000
Judgment
Chilima v. Mutharika (lower court decision)
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Constitution of the Republic of Malawi;
(b) Whether the [2nd] Respondent breached its duty under Section 77 of the
Constitution of the Republic of Malawi; and,
- Question Presented
- Whether the Electoral Commission breach its duty under section 76, 77, and 40 of the Constitution of Malawi. These duties include ensuring the absence of electoral irregularities, illegalities, and failed provide proper oversight and verification.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Malawi
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Feb 3, 2020
Judgment
Electoral Commission v. Malawi Congress Party
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REPUBLIC OF MALAWI
IN THE HIGH COURT OF MALAWI
LILONGWE DISTRICT REGISTRY
\
ELECTIONS CASE NO.7 OF 2019
BETWEEN:
THE STATE
-AND
THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION........................
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Malawi
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
Judgment
Majumdar v. Information Commission
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MATTER OF:
An application under Article 102 (2) of the
Constitution of the People’s Republic of
Bangladesh
AND
IN THE MATTER OF
Badiul Alam Majumdar and others
--------Petitioners
- Question Presented
- Must the Election Commission provide information on parties' financial disclosures without obtaining their consent?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- EMB Independence
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Feb 18, 2016
Judgment
Presidential Petition on Local Government Council Election Act Amendment
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which the President of the Republic had refused to promulgate, with amendments. Proceeding from the
petition of the President of the Republic the Riigikogu decided to amend
- Question Presented
- Is the Local Government Council Election Act Amendment unconstitutional?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electronic Voting
- Country
- Estonia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Sep 1, 2005
Judgment
Chester v. Secretary of State for Justice
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C-6/90 Francovich v Italian Republic [1992]
IRLR 84 and Joined Cases C-46/93 and C-48/93 Brasserie du Pecheur SA v
Federal Republic of Germany and R v
- Legal Issue(s)
- Judicial Independence
- Voter Registration
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Oct 16, 2013
Judgment
Rind v. Balochistan
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the qualifications
laid down under Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of
Pakistan, 1973 (“Constitution”). The basis of this finding is that in the
general
- Question Presented
- Whether failure to disclose education was grounds for disqualifying the petitioner as a candidate.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Pakistan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Sep 19, 2018
Judgment
Sandhu v. Election Commission of Pakistan
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Petition No. 38790 of 2015) under Article 199 of the Constitution of the
Islamic Republic of Pakistan (“the Constitution”). The learned Judge of
the High Court dismissed the
- Question Presented
- Whether a repoll is necessary due to an intervening crime.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Integrity
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Country
- Pakistan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- May 31, 2018
Judgment
Khuhro v. Khan
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disqualification as envisaged in Article 62(1)(f)
of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973
(‘the Constitution”) as well as provisions of the Election Act,
- Question Presented
- Whether misstatements on the candidate’s election papers are sufficient to declare an election void.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Pakistan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Aug 1, 2019
Judgment
Bangladesh 16th amendment ruling
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that
Bangladesh
is
a
“Republic”
and
we
must
always
propound it as a republic and nothing short of a
republic it is trust sense” (A
- Question Presented
- Does the 16th amendment, which allows the legislature to remove Supreme Court justices on grounds of incapacity or misconduct, violate the Constitution?
- Legal Issue(s)
- EMB Independence
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Jul 3, 2017
Judgment
Attorney General v. Taylor
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possibility of paying compensation: European Convention on Human
Rights Act 2003 (Republic of Ireland), s 5.
Taylor (CA), above n 4, at [66].
Mandic v Cornwall
- Question Presented
- Whether the 2010 Electoral Amendment Act is inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act due to the provision disenfranchising prisoners
- Legal Issue(s)
- Judicial Independence
- Voter Registration
- Country
- New Zealand
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Nov 9, 2019
Judgment
In re Representation of People Act and the September 7, 2015 Elections.
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THE REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL
Port of Spain
Civil Appeal Number: S 293 of 2016
Claim Number: CV 2015-03128
IN THE MATTER OF THE
- Question Presented
- Whether the potential for Chief Justice bias is sufficient to overturn the dismissal of a petition challenging election results.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Electoral Integrity
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Feb 6, 2020
Judgment
Gandhi v. Narain
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‘‘Sovereign Democratic Republic’’. The expression ‘‘this
Constitution’’ in the preamble has a basic structure comprising the three
organs of the Republic: the Executive,
- Question Presented
- Whether legislative acts passed during the appeals process may be retroactively applied to validate an election currently in the courts.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- India
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Jul 11, 1975
Judgment
Marube Ombeta, Kamotho Njenga v. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission
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REPUBLIC OF KENYA
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROBI
CONSTITUTIONAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS DIVISION
(Coram: A. C. Mrima, J.)
CONSTITUIONAL PETITION NO. E211 OF 2022
(Consolidated
- Question Presented
- Whether the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC)’s decision to implement the two-thirds gender rule for the 2022 elections is unconstitutional. Whether the IEBC’s decision to reject the petitioner’s candidate nominations list for the National Assembly and the Senate was unconstitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Quotas
- Country
- Kenya
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 13, 2022
Judgment
Odinga v. IEBC
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Kenya as a sovereign Republic. They
urged that Kenya being a Republic, it must conduct itself and its elections
as a true Republic anchored on constitutional
- Question Presented
- Which party has the burden of proof to contest an election?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Kenya
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Sep 1, 2017
Judgment
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe v. ZANU-PF
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the then first secretary of the first respondent and sitting President of the Republic - Mr
Robert Gabriel Mugabe - resigned after an unintermpted thirty seven years
- Question Presented
- Should an interdict be ordered against the respondents for several coercion related activities towards children in schools?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Violence and Intimidation
- Country
- Zimbabwe
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 28, 2018
Judgment
Raatsin for the Declaration of Invalidity of the Voting Results of the Riigikogu Elections of 2011
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The Republic of Estonia as a Contracting State must also take that judgment into account.
About his right to appeal T. Raatsin noted that since in the Republic of
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Electronic Voting
- Country
- Estonia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Mar 23, 2011
Judgment
Appeals declared by the Political Party "Dignity and Truth Platform" and the electoral candidate Andrei Năstase, by Political Party "Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova" and by the Electoral Council of the Chisinau Municipal Electoral District No. 1
Title
Platform" and the electoral candidate Andrei Năstase, by Political Party "Party of Socialists of the Republic
- Question Presented
- Whether the 2018 mayoral election in Chisinau were appropriately annulled due to violations of the electoral silence period on election day.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Social Media
- Country
- Moldova
- Language of Decision
- Romanian
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 25, 2018
Judgment
National Elections Commission v. Brumskine
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IN THE HONOURABLE SUPREME COURT OF REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA
SITTING IN ITS OCTOBER TERM, A. D. 2017
BEFORE HIS HONOR:
BEFORE HIS HONOR:
BEFORE HER HONOR:
BEFORE HIS HONOR:
- Question Presented
- Should elections be annulled when there were late openings of polls, changes of polling stations, inaccurate voter registration lists, and an absence of queue controllers?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Voter Registration
- Country
- Liberia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Dec 7, 2017
Judgment
Mutharika v. Chilima
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Constitution of the Republic of Malawi;
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(b)
whether the [2nd] Respondent breached its duty under section 77 ofthe
Constitution of the Republic of Malawi; and
- Question Presented
- Whether the standard that candidate must receive a majority of the votes means the highest percentage of votes or over 50%?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Voting Systems (Winner-take-all, proportional, etc.)
- Country
- Malawi
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- May 8, 2020
Judgment
EVMs in 2005 German Elections
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German Bundestag and of the Members of the European Parliament from the
Federal Republic of Germany (Federal Voting Machine Ordinance (Bundeswahlgeräteverordnung – BWahlGV)) of 3
- Question Presented
- Was the use of EVMs in the elections erroneous and unconstitutional enough to annul the elections?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electronic Voting
- Country
- Germany
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Mar 3, 2009
Judgment
Kham v. Electoral Commission
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Constitution.
24
New National Party of South Africa v Government of the Republic of South Africa and Others [1999] ZACC
5; 1999 (3) SA 191 (CC); 1999
- Question Presented
- Should elections be annulled when the IEC did not provide timely access to voter rolls to the petitioners before elections?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Voter Registration
- Country
- South Africa
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Nov 1, 2015
Judgment