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Sabha Primary Court Case #8
- Question Presented
- Should elections be annulled when multiple irregularities occurred related to polling date announcements, voters lists, infrastructure, coercion, and vote-buying?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Electoral Violence and Intimidation
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Libya
- Language of Decision
- Arabic
- Date of decision
- Apr 27, 2019
Judgment
Conseil d'État (CE), 4ème chambre, 31 May 2021, N° 441849 (unpublished in Lebon collection)
- Question Presented
- Whether an incumbent mayoral candidate’s advertisement purchased and disseminated on Facebook prior to the campaign period violated article L. 52-1. Whether the level of voter abstention observed is sufficient to cancel electoral operations.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Social Media
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- French
- Date of decision
- May 31, 2021
Judgment
Yushchenko vs CEC
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Ukraine
- Language of Decision
- Ukrainian
- Date of decision
- Dec 3, 2004
Judgment
Harle v. France
- Question Presented
- Should elections be annulled when 1) there were inconsistencies between the number of ballot papers and signatures, and 2) the candidate violated electoral propaganda laws when he posted a personal propaganda photo on his Facebook?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Social Media
- Technology
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- French
- Date of decision
- Dec 2, 2017
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
- 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
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Moldova
- Language of Decision
- Romanian
- Date of decision
- Jun 25, 2018
Judgment
Conseil d'État (CE), 6ème chambre, 28 May 2021, N° 445567 (unpublished in Lebon collection)
- Question Presented
- There are a few issues. 1) Whether an opposing candidate’s advertisement purchased and disseminated on Facebook prior to the campaign period violated article L. 52-1; 2) Whether an outdoor campaign advertisement posted near a busy street and restaurant and shared on Facebook violated Article L. 51; 3) Whether the opposing candidate disseminated false or misleading information about voting by proxy procedures under Article L. 97; 4) Whether opposing candidate defamed complainant under Article 48-2 with a leaflet during the electoral silence period.; and 5) Whether the level of voter abstention observed is sufficient to cancel electoral operations.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Social Media
- Region
- Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- French
- Date of decision
- May 28, 2021
Judgment
Prabowo Subianto & Sandiaga Salahudin Uno v. General Election Commission
- Question Presented
- Did the General Election Commission (KPU) violate the General Elections Code while conducting the vote count for the 2019 presidential election?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Indonesia
- Language of Decision
- Indonesian
- Date of decision
- Jun 27, 2019
Judgment
Prabowo Subianto & Hatta Rajasa v. General Election Commission
- Question Presented
- Did the General Election Commission (KPU) violate the Presidential Election Law while conducting the vote count for the 2014 presidential election?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Indonesia
- Language of Decision
- Indonesian
- Date of decision
- Aug 21, 2014
Judgment
Roeskan Effendi & Rohidin Mersyah v. General Election Commission of South Bengkulu
- Question Presented
- Did the General Election Commission (KPU) of South Bengkulu manipulate the official result “systematically, structurally, and massively” by conducting dishonest and unfair vote counting?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Disputing Results
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Indonesia
- Language of Decision
- Indonesian
- Date of decision
- Jan 8, 2009
Judgment
6- Egodaweie v. Commissioner of Elections
- Question Presented
- Did several electoral irregularities and acts of violence at polling stations fall within the scope of section 46A, compelling the respondent to declare those polls null and void?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Electoral Integrity
- Electoral Violence and Intimidation
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Apr 3, 2001
Judgment
9- Thavaneethan v. Commissioner of Elections
- Question Presented
- Vote as a fundamental right
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Electoral Violence and Intimidation
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Mar 25, 2003
Judgment
Impeachment of Roh Moo-hyun
- Question Presented
- Whether the violations of the electoral code and the Constitution are sufficient to remove the President from office.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- South Korea
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 14, 2004
Judgment
Gandhi v. Narain
- 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
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- India
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jul 11, 1975
Judgment
Chaturman Beda vs Election Special Court and others
- Question Presented
- Whether the ineligibility of a winning candidate due to his age should result in declaring the runner-up candidate as the winner of the election or invalidating the entire election result.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Nepal
- Language of Decision
- Nepali
- Date of decision
- Feb 14, 1990
Judgment
Samuel v. Chief Electoral Officer et al.
- 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
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Marshall Islands
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Aug 31, 2018
Judgment
Nmalamuwomu v. Shadrack
- Question Presented
- Whether the filing deadline for an election petition alleging vote buying made up to and on polling day runs for 21 days after the alleged payment,, or 21 days after the election result is released in the Official Gazette?.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Deadline(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Date of decision
- Jun 24, 2020
Judgment
1996 (Gyo Tsu) 28 [Judgment of the Second Petty Bench, partially dismissed, partially quashed, and partially terminated]
- Question Presented
- Whether denying absentee ballots to voters outside of the country for official ballots is sufficient to dispute the election result.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Japan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 31, 1996
Judgment
Ujung Iskandar & Bambang Purwanto v. General Election Commission of West Kotawaringin
- Question Presented
- Whether the Regional General Election Commission (KPU) of West Kotawaringin manipulated the official results “systematically, structurally, and massively” while conducting the vote counting for the regional head election?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Indonesia
- Language of Decision
- Indonesian
- Date of decision
- Jun 7, 2010
Judgment
Surunuddin Dangga & Muchtar Silondae v. General Election Commission of South Konawe
- Question Presented
- Whether the Regional General Election Commission (KPU) of South Konawe manipulated the official results “systematically, structurally, and massively” while conducting the vote counting for the regional head election?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Indonesia
- Language of Decision
- Indonesian
- Date of decision
- Aug 10, 2010
Judgment
Prabowo Subianto & Hatta Rajasa v. General Election Commission
- Question Presented
- Did the General Election Commission (KPU) violate the Presidential Election Law while conducting the vote count for the 2014 presidential election?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Region
- Asia-Pacific
- Country
- Indonesia
- Language of Decision
- Indonesian
- Date of decision
- Aug 21, 2014
Judgment
Benisek v. Lamone
- Question Presented
- Whether the District Court abused its discretion in denying the plaintiff's request for a preliminary injunction? Whether the congressional map, operating for six years, was an injury redressible by the court?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Disputing Results
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 18, 2018
Judgment
Joseph v. Codrington
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Disputing Results
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 30, 2009
Judgment
Quinn Leandro v. Jonas
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Electoral Integrity
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 27, 2010
Judgment
Ledezma Acosta v. Ausecha Ordóñez and Armando Guevara Bravo
- Question Presented
- Whether a candidate’s disqualification from running in an election should affect the eligibility of all the candidates on the political party’s candidate list, since as a result of the disqualification the entire list did not meet the gender quota minimum required by law.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Disputing Results
- Party Registration
- Quotas
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Sep 17, 2020
Judgment
In the Matter of Rudolph W. Giuliani, an Attorney (United States)
- Question Presented
- Whether Mr. Giuliani’s conduct, as a lawyer perpetuating false statements about widespread voter fraud during the 2020 United States presidential election, violated New York's professional rules of conduct?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 24, 2021
Judgment
Winnemucca v. United States
- Question Presented
- Whether the election of the Council Chairman and the Bureau of Indian Affairs’s nonrecognition of the new government is reviewable by the courts.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Disputing Results
- Indigenous Persons
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
Judgment
Opitz v. Wrzesnewskyj
- Question Presented
- Were irregularities related to voter registration significant enough to annul the elections? Which approach should be followed in determining electoral irregularities?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Canada
- Language of Decision
- English
- French
- Date of decision
- Oct 25, 2012
Judgment
Bush v. Gore
- 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
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Dec 12, 2000
Judgment
PAN v. PRI (SM JIN 0035 2015)
- Question Presented
- Whether the Governor's presence and irregularities are sufficient to annul the election results.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Electoral Integrity
- Social Media
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Aug 4, 2017
Judgment
Monroy Hernandez v. Molano Granados
- Question Presented
- Whether the election of a municipal elected official should be nullified and/or her candidacy deemed ineligible on charges of nepotism due to her father holding a government position, which exercised administrative authority, within twelve months of her election even if there is no proof that he used or abused his position to further her candidacy.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Abuse of State Resources (ASR)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Region
- Americas
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Mar 12, 2020
Judgment