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Quinn Leandro v. Jonas
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of the Election Rules.
New National Party of South Africa v Government of the Republic of
South Africa. (1995) 5 BCLR 489,mentioned.
4. Notwithstanding that late voting was
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 27, 2010
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
- Date of decision
- Feb 18, 2016
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
- Date of decision
- Jul 3, 2017
Judgment
Resolução nº 22.610, de 25 de outubro de 2007
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CAPUTO BASTOS – Ministro MARCELO RIBEIRO
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Publicada no DJ de 30.10.2007 e republicada no DJ de 27.3.2008.
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#Código Eleitoral
#Legislação eleitoral
#Publicação eletrônica
- Question Presented
- Whether elected officials crossing party lines after ascertaining political office violates Brazil's electoral code?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Party Registration
- Country
- Brazil
- Language of Decision
- Portuguese
- Date of decision
- Oct 25, 2007
Judgment
Ramos Rojas v. Sanabria Chacón
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is not valid because it “‘enshrin[es] provisions contrary to the Constitution and the laws of the Republic
- 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
- Date of decision
- Dec 3, 2020
Judgment
Shura Council Speaker request for constitutional review of the draft law regulating the exercise of political rights.
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of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate
The Arab Republic of Egypt
The Presidency of the Republic
Official Gazette
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Issue No.
21 bis (a)
Issued
- 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
- Date of decision
- May 26, 2013
Judgment
Mohamed v. Chairman of High Elections Commission
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In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate
The Arab Republic of Egypt
The Egyptian Presidency
Official Journal
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Issue # 22
(Ibid)
- 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
- Date of decision
- Jun 3, 2013
Judgment
Shura Council Speaker's request for constitutional review of the drafted law.
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of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate
The Arab Republic of Egypt
The Presidency of the Republic
Official Gazette
Price: EGP 3
Issue No. 7
(bis)
Issued
- Question Presented
- Whether the proposed provisions are constitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Country
- Egypt
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Feb 13, 2013
Judgment
Abdel-Razeq v. Ahmed
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of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate
The Arab Republic of Egypt
The Presidency of the Republic
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Official Gazette
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Issue No. 9
(Bis)
- 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
- Date of decision
- Mar 15, 2015
Judgment
Mustafa v. Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
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ten years prior to 11/2/2011 as the President of the Republic, or Vice
President of the Republic, or Prime Minister or…” for a period of ten years
- 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
- Date of decision
- Jun 14, 2012
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
- Date of decision
- Mar 23, 2011
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
- Date of decision
- Sep 1, 2005
Judgment
Review of the Constitutionality of Section Five of the Riigikogu Election Act
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3-4-1-3-17
SUPREME COURT
CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW CHAMBER
JUDGMENT
in the name of the Republic of Estonia
Case number
3-4-1-3-17
Date of judgment
18 May 2017
Composition of
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Country
- Estonia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 18, 2017
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
- Date of decision
- Mar 3, 2009
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
- Date of decision
- Jul 11, 1975
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
- Date of decision
- Nov 18, 2016
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
- Date of decision
- Sep 1, 2017
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
- Date of decision
- Jun 5, 2013
Judgment
Odinga, et. al v. Ruto
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(Election Petitions) (5 September 2022) (Judgment)
Neutral citation: [2022] KESC 54 (KLR)
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF KENYA
ELECTION PETITIONS
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PETITION
- 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
- Date of decision
- Sep 5, 2022
Judgment
Kitute v. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission
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Kitute v Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission & 2 others [2017] eKLR
THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA
AT KITUI
ELECTION PETITION NO 1 OF
- 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
- Date of decision
- Nov 6, 2017
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
- Date of decision
- Jun 13, 2022
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
- Date of decision
- May 14, 2017
Judgment
Self Determination Movement v. CEP
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Republic of Kosovo
Republika e Kosoves-Republika Kosova
Paneli Zgjedhor për Ankesa dhe Parashtresa
Izborni Panel za Zalbe I Predstavke
Elections Complaints and Appeals Panel
A.no.
- 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
- Date of decision
- Oct 10, 2019
Judgment
Party of Kosovo Serbs v. Serbian List
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Republic of Kosovo
Republika e Kosovës-Republika Kosova
Paneli Zgjedhor për Ankesa dhe Parashtresa
Izborni Panel za Zalbe i Predstavke
Elections Complaints and Appeals Panel
A.no.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Technology
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 10, 2019
Judgment
Pacolli v. Central Election Commission
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Republic of Kosovo
Republika e Kosovës-Republika Kosova
Paneli Zgjedhor për Ankesa dhe Parashtresa
Izborni Panel za Zalbe i Predstavke
Elections Complaints and Appeals Panel
A.no.
- Question Presented
- Whether the court may hear the merits of a complaint on the voting counts are most polling stations.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 10, 2019
Judgment
Levizja Vetevendosje v. Central Election Commission
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Republic of Kosovo
Republika e Kosovës-Republika Kosova
Paneli Zgjedhor për Ankesa dhe Parashtresa
Izborni Panel za Zalbe i Predstavke
Elections Complaints and Appeals Panel
A.no.
- Question Presented
- Whether the ballots postmarked well before the election, but not received by the CRC, must be counted as valid ballots.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 28, 2019
Judgment
Kosovo Police v. Mustafa
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Republic of Kosovo
Republika e Kosoves- Republika Kosova
Elections Complaints and Appeals Panel
Paneli Zgjedhor per Ankesa dhe Parashtresa
Izborni Panel za Zalbe i Predstavke
- Question Presented
- Whether a candidate violated the Law of General Elections prohibition on taking advantage of a public employee during a campaign period when the candidate used photo of the Kosovo Police Chief?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 10, 2019
Judgment
Germin Organization v. Central Election Commission
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Republic of Kosovo
Republika e Kosovës-Republika Kosova
Paneli Zgjedhor për Ankesa dhe Parashtresa
Izborni Panel za Zalbe i Predstavke
Elections Complaints and Appeals Panel
A.no.
- Question Presented
- Whether the vote counting procedure violates the right to early vote for Kosovo citizens outside of Kosovo. Whether the complaint may be brought before a final decision is reached.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 19, 2019
Judgment
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network BIRN Internews and Kosova v. Serbian List
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of Republic of Kosovo, Panel finds it unsustainable
because of the Transitional Provisions for Assembly of Kosovo, in Article 148 paragraph
1 of Constitution of Republic of
- Question Presented
- Whether the Serbian List's election spot violated the Election Code such that it incited hatred or violence.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Violence and Intimidation
- Social Media
- Country
- Kosovo
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Sep 27, 2019
Judgment
LVV Political Entity v. Central Election Commission
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Republic of Kosovo
Republika e Kosoves- Republika Kosova
Elections Complaints and Appeals Panel
Paneli Zgjedhor per Ankesa dhe Parashtresa
Izborni Panel za Zalbe i Predstavke
- 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
- Date of decision
- Oct 19, 2019
Judgment