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Quinn Leandro v. Jonas
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Oct 27, 2010
Judgment
Texas Democratic Party v. Abbott
- Question Presented
- Whether the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a disability under Texas law sufficient to modify the vote-by-mail system.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Health Concerns & Election Administration
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 4, 2020
Judgment
Obradovic v. Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Question Presented
- Whether the plaintiff's dismissal from the military banned him from participating in the General Election?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Oct 10, 2003
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Conseil d'État (CE), 4ème chambre, 31 May 2021, N° 441849 (unpublished in Lebon collection)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
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- French
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- May 31, 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
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
Judgment
Electoral Commission v. Watson
- Question Presented
- Whether the video and song Planet Key are considered election advertisements and/or election programs.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Country
- New Zealand
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Oct 20, 2016
Judgment
Kyewalabye v. Electoral Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether the plaintiff has the evidentiary burden to contest the election results.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Disputing Results
- Country
- Uganda
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Oct 3, 2016
Judgment
Opendi v. Electoral Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether the invalidation of seventeen polling station results is sufficient grounds to annul the election results.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Country
- Uganda
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Sep 23, 2011
Judgment
Mwiru v. Samson
- Question Presented
- Whether the respondent’s education failed to meet the requirements for candidacy. If so, whether the respondent’s election as a Member of Parliament should be annulled.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Uganda
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 28, 2011
Judgment
Seawright v. Board of Elections & In re Hawatmeh v. State Board of Elections
- Question Presented
- Whether late filings during the COVID-9 pandemic constitute unique circumstances that would permit remedy of the fatal defect when otherwise not provide in law.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Health Concerns & Election Administration
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- May 21, 2020
Judgment
10- Perera v. Senarathe
- Question Presented
- The petitioner, an MP, complained that the respondent, also an MP, has illegally entered into contracts with government institutions and seeks a declaration that the respondent's appointment is void.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Abuse of State Resources (ASR)
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Dec 10, 1999
Judgment
Jampen v. State Council
- Question Presented
- Whether when two distinct constituencies have a single electoral body and drastically different populations, the constituencies must be severed and granted their own electoral bodies.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- Country
- Switzerland
- Language of Decision
- German
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Mar 20, 1963
Judgment
Tan Chen Bock v. Attorney General
- Question Presented
- Whether the reserved election clause solely permits choosing from the terms of office of Presidents elected by the citizens, or also includes those chosen by Parliament.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Singapore
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Aug 23, 2017
Judgment
Wong Souk Yee v. Attorney General
- Question Presented
- Whether the Prime Minister had a duty to fill the vacancy in a Group Representation Constituency.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Integrity
- EMB Independence
- Country
- Singapore
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Apr 10, 2019
Judgment
Electoral Commission of Uganda v. Bakireke
- Question Presented
- Was the election conducted legally? Did non-compliance substantially affect the results? Did the winning candidate commit electoral offenses? Did the trial judge err in annulling the elections at the trial level?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Violence and Intimidation
- Country
- Uganda
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Jan 19, 2007
Judgment
Yang v. Kellner
- Question Presented
- Whether removal of the candidates from the primary ballots after the termination of their campaign violates the voter’s right to elect the candidate of their choosing.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- May 5, 2020
Judgment
Decision No. 207182
- Question Presented
- Whether a voter’s electoral rights are violated when the question asked in a referendum is unclear and information about the question is not readily available at the polling site.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Accessibility
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Country
- Serbia
- Language of Decision
- Serbian
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Feb 3, 2022
Judgment
Decision 207183
- Question Presented
- Whether the Sabac City Assembly was the proper authority to hear a challenge about the conduct of a referendum.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Country
- Serbia
- Language of Decision
- Serbian
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Feb 3, 2022
Judgment
Aryeh Bain v. Chief Electoral Officer
- Question Presented
- Whether setting election day as a Jewish holiday violates the right to vote?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Canada
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 26, 2019
Judgment
(Mexico) SCM JDC 0412 2021
- Question Presented
- Whether there is an obligation among political parties to comply with a candidate quota that included people from the LGBTQIA + community even though there was no legal order or law to do so.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Quotas
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Apr 3, 2021
Judgment
Albayda Judgment – Ali Tarhouni Case II (2016)
- Question Presented
- Whether the chairman of the CDA lost his Libyan citizenship and eligibility for office by obtaining American citizenship and marrying a foreigner.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Libya
- Language of Decision
- Arabic
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Nov 28, 2016
Judgment
Albayda Judgment - Emergency Procedural Ruling
- Question Presented
- Whether Libyan Constitution Drafting Assembly (“CDA”) members’ procedural change on vote quorum, from requiring 2/3 majority plus one of the entire CDA to 2/3 majority plus one of present members, violated the law.
- Country
- Libya
- Language of Decision
- Arabic
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Dec 19, 2016
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
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- French
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- May 28, 2021
Judgment
In the Matter of Rudolph W. Giuliani
- Question Presented
- Whether the respondent violated D.C. Bar Rules X and XI, § 2(b) by filing a frivolous lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania, which requires him to be sanctioned under the D.C. Rules of Professional Conduct.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Disputing Results
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Appellate Court
- Date of decision
- Apr 4, 2022
Judgment
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
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Mar 26, 2020
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
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- 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
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Dec 16, 2020
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
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Sep 17, 2020
Judgment
BVerfG, decision of the Second Senate of December 15, 2020
- Question Presented
- Whether the non-parity nomination of candidates for the Bundestag election by the parties constitutes a major electoral error that has a decisive impact on the distribution of seats and the validity of the election.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Country
- Germany
- Language of Decision
- German
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Dec 15, 2020
Judgment
Masumba v. Kamondo
- Question Presented
- Whether the respondent was properly elected as a Member of Parliament on account of allegations made against him by the appellant of illegal acts or misconduct (i.e., defamation or inflammatory statements, intimidation and violence, and undue influence) during the campaign period.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Violence and Intimidation
- Country
- Zambia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Nov 17, 2017
Judgment
Case on Election Campaign by Teacher via Social Networking
- Question Presented
- A public school teacher shared a post on his/her Facebook that indicated that a political candidate was lying.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Country
- South Korea
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Feb 27, 2020
Judgment
New Nation Movement NPC and Others v President of the Republic of South Africa
- Question Presented
- Whether the requirement of political party membership for candidate eligibility is constitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- South Africa
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 11, 2020
Judgment
Shura Council Speaker request for constitutional review of the draft law regulating the exercise of political rights.
- Question Presented
- Whether the draft law adheres to the current constitutional political protections.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Accessibility
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- May 26, 2013
Judgment
Décision n° 2015 465 QPC du 24 avril 2015 Conseil constitutionnel
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- French
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Apr 24, 2015
Judgment
Case on Restricting Online Media from Publishing Columns, etc. Written by Candidates for Public Official Election
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Country
- South Korea
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Nov 28, 2019
Judgment
VerfGBbg, judgment of 23. October 2020 - VfGBbg 55/19
- Question Presented
- Whether the gender quota under the Parity Act is constitutional
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Quotas
- Country
- Germany
- Language of Decision
- German
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Oct 23, 2020
Judgment
VerfGBbg, judgment of 23 October 2020 - VfGBbg 9/19
- Question Presented
- Are gender quotas constitutional?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Quotas
- Country
- Germany
- Language of Decision
- German
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Oct 23, 2020
Judgment
Mohamed v. Chairman of High Elections Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether the elections of the Shura Council, Upper House, exceed the bodies authority and whether and actions taken by the body are consequently unconstitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Electoral Integrity
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 3, 2013
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
- Country
- Indonesia
- Language of Decision
- Indonesian
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- 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
- Country
- Indonesia
- Language of Decision
- Indonesian
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- 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
- Country
- Indonesia
- Language of Decision
- Indonesian
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Jan 8, 2009
Judgment
Décision n° 2001 445 DC du 19 juin 2001 Conseil constitutionnel
- Question Presented
- Whether section 33 of the French Institutional Act violates the Constitution.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- English
- French
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 19, 2001
Judgment
Décision n° 98 407 DC du 14 janvier 1999 Conseil constitutionnel
- Question Presented
- Whether the Electoral Code provision requiring parity between male and female candidates violates the French Constitution?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- English
- French
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Jan 14, 1999
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
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Feb 14, 2018
Judgment
Review of the Constitutionality of Section Five of the Riigikogu Election Act
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Country
- Estonia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- May 18, 2017
Judgment
Hichilema v. Lungu
- Question Presented
- Does the Court have jurisdiction to hear the election petition after the expiry of the 14 day constitutionally prescribed period?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Disputing Results
- Country
- Zambia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Sep 5, 2016
Judgment
Mavedzenge v. Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs
- Question Presented
- Applicant seeks declaration of constitutional invalidity of Electoral Act section 192(6), particularly striking the phrase "approved by the Minister" from the provision. Is the Minister's approval requirement tantamount to the ZEC being subject to his direction and control?
- Legal Issue(s)
- EMB Independence
- Country
- Zimbabwe
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- May 31, 2018
Judgment
My Vote Counts NPC v. Minister of Justice and Correctional Services
- Question Presented
- Is the current Promotion of Access to Information Act unconstitutional?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Country
- South Africa
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 21, 2018
Judgment
Popular Parliamentary Group of Congress of Deputies (Review of Law)
- Question Presented
- Whether the ballot parity is sufficiently remedied in the voter pool. Whether such quotas are constitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Quotas
- Country
- Spain
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Feb 29, 2008
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
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- French
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Dec 2, 2017
Judgment
Abdel-Razeq v. Ahmed
- Question Presented
- Where the constituency representation scheme violates the reasonableness standard.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Integrity
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Mar 15, 2015
Judgment
Mustafa v. Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
- Question Presented
- Whether closed party lists and a first past the post system discriminates against independent candidates?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Electoral Integrity
- Voting Systems (Winner-take-all, proportional, etc.)
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 14, 2012
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
- Country
- South Korea
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- May 14, 2004
Judgment
In re Gomez
- Question Presented
- Whether criminal charges against an elected officeholder are sufficient to revoke the position on a temporary basis?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Criminal Procedure
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Chile
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Dec 23, 2008
Judgment
Decision No. 1 (1995)
- Question Presented
- Whether a law that permits the Prime Minister to exercise his discretionary power to transfer or declare a vacancy for the position of the President of the Supreme Court of char’i jaafarite contradicts the principle of “separation of powers” and should be repealed.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Country
- Lebanon
- Language of Decision
- French
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Nov 2, 1995
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
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Mar 12, 2020
Judgment
59 Members of Parliament of Ukraine on the constitutionality of the provisions of Art.22.2 of the Parliamentary Elections Law of Ukraine concerning the equal allocation of foreign polling stations to all single-member constituencies
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Ukraine
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Apr 4, 2012
Judgment
Huarte-Mendicoa v. Basque Parliament Act
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Country
- Spain
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Jan 19, 2009
Judgment
Shura Council Speaker's request for constitutional review of the drafted law.
- Question Presented
- Whether the proposed provisions are constitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Feb 13, 2013
Judgment
Maurin v. France
- Question Presented
- Did the candidate violate campaign finance laws when he filed his campaign accounts late and failed to file certain expenses and financial notebooks?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- French
- Court
- Constitutional Court
- Date of decision
- Feb 1, 2019
Judgment