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Barthelemy v. President of the Republic of Vanuatu
Applicable Law(s)
Constitution of the Republic of Vanuatu: Articles 53, 21, 28, 39, 40, 43, 66, 67
- Question Presented
- (1) Was the Council of Minister’s advice to the President to dissolve Parliament while there was a pending motion of no confidence by members of parliament a violation of the Constitution? (2) If so, was the dissolution of parliament by President void? (3) Does the Supreme Court have jurisdiction to hear constitutional writ petitions relating to the dissolution of parliament?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Conflict of Interests
- Improper Practices
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Date of decision
- Sep 9, 2022
- Date modified
- Feb 5, 2024
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
- Date of decision
- Aug 31, 2018
- Date modified
- Jan 24, 2024
Judgment
Lessons on the Use of Technology in Elections
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Investigation Guidebook (2020), p.96. https://www.ifes.org/publications/election-investigations-guidebook
Kenya, Republic v. Mark Lloyd Steveson, High Court (Kiambu) Criminal Revision No. 1 of
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Legal Frameworks
- Regional Jurisprudence
- Language
- English
- Date modified
- Nov 8, 2023
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Alternative Dispute Resolution in Elections: Practitioner Brief
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in the Republic of Zambia - Preliminary
Statement. (2016, August 13). https://www.eisa.org/pdf/zam2016eom0.pdf
European Union election observation mission final report: Republic of Zambia
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Language
- English
- Date modified
- May 5, 2023
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Bench Book on Electoral Dispute Resolution
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RESOLUTION
XXXV
Republic v IEBC & Another Ex Parte CORD [2017] eKLR (HC)
Republic v IEBC Ex-Parte Charles Olari Chebet [2013] eKLR (HC)
Republic v IEBC &
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- Election Dispute Resolution
- Judicial Independence
- Legal Frameworks
- Regional Jurisprudence
- Language
- English
- Date modified
- Oct 12, 2022
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Decision 207183
Procedural history
The applicant then appealed to the Republic Election Commission, which rejected his appeal.
- 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
- Date of decision
- Feb 3, 2022
- Date modified
- Sep 19, 2022
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
- Date of decision
- Feb 3, 2022
- Date modified
- Sep 16, 2022
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
- Date modified
- Sep 14, 2022
Judgment
Ramos Rojas v. Sanabria Chacón
Summary
party 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
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2022
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
- Date modified
- Sep 13, 2022
Judgment
Election Dispute Resolution Report 2020
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(government), Slovak Republic, Switzerland.
49 Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Ireland,(for political party registration/appeal board),
Republic of Korea, Luxembourg
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- Election Dispute Resolution
- Legal Frameworks
- Regional Jurisprudence
- Language
- English
- Date modified
- Dec 23, 2021
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Election Case Law Analysis Series: Lessons for Regulating Campaigning on Social Media
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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
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Legal Frameworks
- Language
- English
- Date modified
- Dec 22, 2021
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Election Case Law Analysis Series: Lessons on Gender Equality and Women’s Political Participation
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berliner-
zeitung.de/en/germany-mulls-electoral-gender-equality-law-li.138445
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Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany in the revised version published in the Federal Law Gazette Part III
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Electoral Inclusion
- Language
- English
- Date modified
- Dec 22, 2021
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Guide Electoral, Tome III Référencement jurisprudentiel 2006-2018
Description
Compendium of electoral case law from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Language
- French
- Date modified
- Dec 22, 2021
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Guide to Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 to the European Convention on Human Rights
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Partisi (the Welfare Party) and
Others v. Turkey [GC], 2003; Linkov v. the Czech Republic, 2006; Parti nationaliste basque –
Organisation régionale d’Iparralde v. France
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Legal Frameworks
- Language
- English
- Date modified
- Dec 22, 2021
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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
- Date of decision
- Aug 25, 2021
- Date modified
- Nov 30, 2021
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
- Date of decision
- Jun 25, 2018
- Date modified
- Oct 26, 2021
Judgment
Electoral Justice: Here, Now, Tomorrow [The Case of Serbia]
Document contents
Article 3
Law on the Election of the President of the Republic, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, Nos. 111/2007 and 104/2009
– Other Law.
13
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Language
- English
- Serbian
- Date modified
- Oct 25, 2021
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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
- Date modified
- Oct 9, 2021
Judgment
The Right to Participate in the Government of One's Country in the Context of an Election Held During a Public Health Emergency or a Pandemic, Such as the COVID-19 Crisis, No. 001/2020, Advisory Opinion, African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights [Afr. Ct. H.P.R.] (July 16, 2021).
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The Author states that it is an African organisation based in Arusha, United
Republic of Tanzania. It further states that it is recognised by the African Union
(hereinafter
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- COVID-19 (Postponement and Accessibility)
- Language
- English
- Date modified
- Aug 5, 2021
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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
Price: EGP 3.0
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
- Date modified
- Aug 5, 2021
Judgment
Abdel-Razeq v. Ahmed
Document contents
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. 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
- Date modified
- Aug 5, 2021
Judgment
Mustafa v. Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
Document contents
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
- Date modified
- Aug 5, 2021
Judgment
Shura Council Speaker request for constitutional review of the draft law regulating the exercise of political rights.
Document contents
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.
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
- Date modified
- Aug 5, 2021
Judgment
Shura Council Speaker's request for constitutional review of the drafted law.
Document contents
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
- Date modified
- Aug 5, 2021
Judgment
Budding Democracy or Judicialisation: Lessons from Africa’s Emerging Electoral Jurisprudence
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President, Africa Judges and Jurists Forum (AJJF),
Retired Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya and former
President of the Supreme Court of Kenya
CHAPTER 1
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Annulments
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Language
- English
- Date modified
- Jun 4, 2021
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Election Investigations Guidebook
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of the
Republic of Armenia adjunct to the Government of the Republic of Armenia — information on the fact of being absent from
the Republic of Armenia
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Language
- English
- Date modified
- Dec 28, 2020
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Mutharika v. Chilima
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Constitution of the Republic of Malawi;
10
(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
- Date of decision
- May 8, 2020
- Date modified
- Nov 19, 2020
Judgment
Odinga v. IEBC
Document contents
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
- Date modified
- Nov 6, 2020
Judgment
Wong Souk Yee v. Attorney General
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE
[2019] SGCA 25
Civil Appeal No 73 of 2018
Between
WONG SOUK YEE
… Appellant
And
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
… Respondent
- 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
- Date of decision
- Apr 10, 2019
- Date modified
- Nov 6, 2020
Judgment