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Human Rights Network of Uganda v. Attorney General
- Question Presented
- Whether the Public Order Management Act of 2013 violates the Uganda Constitution? Whether parliament and the executive may pass legislation in response to decision of the court?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Electoral Violence and Intimidation
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Uganda
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Mar 26, 2020
Judgment
Party of Kosovo Serbs v. Serbian List
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Technology
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Oct 10, 2019
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
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Jun 18, 2018
Judgment
LVV Political Entity v. Central Election Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether the ballots declared invalid by the CRC were valid and should have been counted for in election totals?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Oct 19, 2019
Judgment
BIRN v. Democratic League of Kosovo
- Question Presented
- Whether the claimant met its evidentiary burden for determining that the respondent violated election law.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Social Media
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Oct 6, 2019
Judgment
Nisma-Akr-PD v. Polling Station 211B
- Question Presented
- Whether there is sufficient evidence to bar the election officials from participating in elections or election administration after they lost ballots.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Integrity
- EMB Operation
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Oct 10, 2019
Judgment
PDK v. Central Election Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether the technical omission from the Kosovo ballots warrants a recount prior to the final election results.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Oct 18, 2019
Judgment
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe v. ZANU-PF
- 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
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Jun 28, 2018
Judgment
SUP RAP 726 2017
- Question Presented
- Political parties and coalitions must register indigenous peoples´ representatives as candidates in at least 13 electoral districts
- Legal Issue(s)
- Quotas
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Dec 14, 2017
Judgment
Thompson v. Hebdon
- Question Presented
- Whether Alaska's $500 contribution limit violates the Fourteenth Amendment
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Nov 25, 2019
Judgment
Mutharika v. Chilima
- 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
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- May 8, 2020
Judgment
Siwale v. Electoral Commission of Zambia
- Question Presented
- Can the referendum proceed without being voted on as a bill as constitutionally required?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Voter Registration
- Country
- Zambia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Feb 14, 2018
Judgment
Wisconsin Legislature v. Evers (state Supreme Court Decision, please see United States Supreme Court order on the application for stay)
- Question Presented
- Whether the Governor may suspend election laws two days before the election?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Accessibility
- Electoral Integrity
- Health Concerns & Election Administration
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Apr 6, 2020
Judgment
Self Determination Movement v. CEP
- Question Presented
- Whether the plaintiff sufficiently alleged that the irregularities in voting warranted renumbering the ballots.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Oct 10, 2019
Judgment
Odinga, et. al v. Ruto
- Question Presented
- Whether petitioners’ evidence of interference and election fraud satisfied the appropriate level of evidence as required by the Court and affected the election result, warranting the cancellation and rerun of the election?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Electoral Integrity
- Electronic Voting
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Kenya
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Sep 5, 2022
Judgment
Kitute v. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission
- Question Presented
- Is electronic evidence submitted in support of allegations of election fraud subject to the Evidence Act, which requires authentication or certification by an appropriate authority or expert?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Electoral Integrity
- Electronic Voting
- Country
- Kenya
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Nov 6, 2017
Judgment
Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij v. the Netherlands
- Question Presented
- Whether religiously affiliated parties can exclude women from running as candidates on the grounds that forcing the party to host women candidates violates its freedom of religious expression, as it believes women are unsuited for public office?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Country
- Netherlands
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Jul 10, 2012
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
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Jun 5, 2013
Judgment
City for All List, et. al v. Palestinian Central Election Commission, et. al
- Question Presented
- Whether the error in registration on the voter list of one candidate from an independent candidate list should result in rejecting the application of all the candidates on the list, and thus the entire list, from running for election.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Eligibility
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Palestine
- Language of Decision
- Arabic
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Apr 23, 2017
Judgment
The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia v. The Harari Peoples’ Regional State, Harari National Congress
- Question Presented
- Whether the decision by the Election Bench of the FSC ordering the NEBE to continue the practice, during the 6th general elections, of allowing members of the Harari community residing outside of the Harari People’s Regional State to elect members of the Harari National Congress (which is part of the Harari People’s Regional State Council (regional parliament)) contained an error of law.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Language of Decision
- Amharic
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- May 27, 2021
Judgment
In Re Case No. 9768, 9780 & 9828
- Question Presented
- Whether the elections violated the citizen’s political rights even though the domestic options were exhausted.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Integrity
- EMB Independence
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- May 17, 1990
Judgment
Ronan v. Regional Electoral Office
- Question Presented
- Whether the business entity was formed for the candidate to utilize the funds as illegal campaign funds
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Country
- Brazil
- Language of Decision
- Portuguese
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- May 14, 2019
Judgment
Ramos Rojas v. Sanabria Chacón
- Question Presented
- Whether a political party’s internal rules on candidacy criteria relating to nepotism may nullify an election of one of its registered candidates if he violated the party rules but otherwise met the eligibility criteria set up in the Constitution or statutes.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Dec 3, 2020
Judgment
Núñez de Armas v. Magdaniel Hernández
- Question Presented
- Whether a candidate must resign from his administrative position twelve months from the date of his registration as a candidate or twelve months from the date of the election to be eligible to run as a candidate.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Dec 16, 2020
Judgment
SUP-REP-16/2016 Y SUP-REP-22/2016 ACUMULADOS
- Question Presented
- Whether the Green Party of Mexico and various famous persons were rightfully sanctioned for alleged campaign violations.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Apr 20, 2016
Judgment
2017 (Gyo Tsu) 47 [Judgments concerning the constitutionality of the provisions on the apportionment of seats for members (to be elected by constituency) of the House of Councillors stipulated in Article 14 and Appended Table 3 of the Public Offices Election Act]
- Question Presented
- Whether the electoral code system, in light of the migration from constituencies, should be declared unconstitutional?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Voting Systems (Winner-take-all, proportional, etc.)
- Country
- Japan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Sep 17, 2017
Judgment
Buriro v. Shah
- Question Presented
- Where the citizenship requirement for candidacy may be met by a renunciation of dual citizenship.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Pakistan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Jan 23, 2019
Judgment
Rind v. Balochistan
- 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
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Sep 19, 2018
Judgment
Republication National Commitee v. Democratic National Committe (Wisconsin)
- Question Presented
- Whether absentee ballots must be postmarked by the original election date.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Accessibility
- Electoral Integrity
- Health Concerns & Election Administration
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Apr 6, 2020
Judgment
Joseph v. Codrington
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Disputing Results
- Country
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Language of Decision
- English
- Election Type
- General
- Date of decision
- Jun 30, 2009
Judgment