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Joseph v. Codrington
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Disputing Results
- 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
- Country
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 27, 2010
Judgment
Together for the Change Without Formalizing Candidacies
- Question Presented
- Whether the when there is a vacancy in the candidate list and a legal framework for alternating candidate gender on the ballot, the substitute must be of the same gender as the deceased.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Country
- Argentina
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Nov 12, 2019
Judgment
Palmer v. Australian Electoral Commission (AEC)
- Question Presented
- Whether the practice of disclosing the indicative two-candidate preferred count (“Indicative TCP”) prior to the closing of all polling sites in the country by the Australian Election Commission (AEC) influenced the voters’ choice and undermined the impartiality or perception of impartiality of the Commission, therefore violating the election law and the Constitution.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Australia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Aug 14, 2019
Judgment
Australian Electoral Commission v. Johnston
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Australia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Feb 18, 2014
Judgment
Union NSW v. New South Wales
- Question Presented
- Whether Election Code s 96D, and 95G6 are inconsistent with the Australia Constitution.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Country
- Australia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Dec 13, 2013
Judgment
Majumdar v. Information Commission
- 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
- 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
Srpska Radikalna Stranka v. Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Question Presented
- Whether the the PEC's decision to bar the Serb Radical Party from the elections for not meeting the conditions is reviewable by the the court.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Party Registration
- Country
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jan 1, 2000
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
- Date of decision
- Oct 10, 2003
Judgment
Resolução nº 22.610, de 25 de outubro de 2007
- 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
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
- Date of decision
- May 14, 2019
Judgment
Sardelli v. Almeida
- Question Presented
- Whether the President may file a criminal electoral complaint against a private citizen.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Abuse of State Resources (ASR)
- Criminal Procedure
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Brazil
- Language of Decision
- Portuguese
- Date of decision
- Aug 14, 2003
Judgment
Antonio Pedro de Siqueira Indio da Costa v. Public Electoral Ministry (No. 1825-24.2010.6.00.0000)
- Question Presented
- Whether tweets announcing candidacy before the election period violate the Election Law because it is a publicly accessible platform.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Country
- Brazil
- Language of Decision
- Portuguese
- Date of decision
- Jun 4, 2010
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
- Country
- Canada
- Language of Decision
- English
- French
- Date of decision
- Oct 25, 2012
Judgment
Canadian Broadcasting Corp. v. Canada
- Question Presented
- Whether the broadcasting restricted and alleged Charter violations therein may be heard on an expedited review basis.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Country
- Canada
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Apr 11, 2011
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
- Date of decision
- Jun 26, 2019
Judgment
Szuchewycz v. Attorney General
- Question Presented
- Whether the provision on which the candidate’s registration were denied are in violation of the Charter.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Canada
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 25, 2017
Judgment
McEwing v. Attorney General
- Question Presented
- Whether the phone calls had any impact on the final election results and if those results were sufficient to annul the election results.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Canada
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 23, 2013
Judgment
Hughes v. Human Rights Commission
- Legal Issue(s)
- Accessibility
- Country
- Canada
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Feb 12, 2010
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
- Date of decision
- Dec 23, 2008
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
- 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
- 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
- Date of decision
- Sep 17, 2020
Judgment
In re Luis Gullermo Otoya Gertds
- Question Presented
- Whether an alleged vote counting inconsistency is sufficient to sustain a claim for election annulment without a claim of harm?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Jun 2, 2014
Judgment
In re Valdes
- Question Presented
- Whether a judicial election taking place after a newly election procedure was passed, but initiated before has ground for annulment.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Feb 23, 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
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Mar 12, 2020
Judgment
Medina Padilla v. Aguilar Hurtado
- Question Presented
- Whether an election should be annulled because the elected candidate received an endorsement from registered members of a political party, along with some of that party’s militants, other than the candidate’s registered party.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Disputing Results
- Party Registration
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Aug 20, 2020
Judgment
Ospina Carballo v. Restrepo Gallego
- Question Presented
- Whether a candidate in the Departmental Assembly of Valle del Cauca gubernatorial election is eligible to be allocated a seat as Deputy even if he or she won fewer votes than the “blank vote option,” which won the second highest number of votes.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Nov 5, 2020
Judgment
Ortiz Daza v. Act Declaring the Election of Candelo Riascos
- Question Presented
- Whether a candidate is permitted to endorse a candidate from another party (“double militancy”) when he receives express permission or derogation from his own party to do so, despite the provision in law that prohibits this practice.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Disputing Results
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Dec 10, 2020
Judgment
Zambrano Castro v. National Electoral Council
- Question Presented
- Whether the rejection of an applicant’s mayoral candidacy should be overturned because he initiated a lawsuit to revoke disciplinary sanctions against him, thereby potentially qualifying him for a “pending lawsuit” exception as outlined in Article 100, Paragraph 8 of the General Code of Procedure.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Civil Procedure
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Oct 29, 2020
Judgment
In re Article 138 Electoral Code — No. 0382-E8-2018
- Question Presented
- What is the scope of the Electoral Code as it pertains to the dissemination of opinion polls and surveys by companies and organizations not registered with the Electoral Administration when dispersed through social media platforms?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Country
- Costa Rica
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Jan 16, 2018
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
- Date of decision
- May 26, 2013
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
- Date of decision
- Jun 3, 2013
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
- 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
- Date of decision
- Jun 14, 2012
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
- Date of decision
- Feb 13, 2013
Judgment
Presidential Petition on Local Government Council Election Act Amendment
- 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
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Country
- Estonia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 18, 2017
Judgment
Polluaas for Annulment of Electronic Votes Cast in the Riigikogu Elections 2011
- Legal Issue(s)
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Country
- Estonia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Mar 23, 2011
Judgment
Raatsin for the Declaration of Invalidity of the Voting Results of the Riigikogu Elections of 2011
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Electronic Voting
- Country
- Estonia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Mar 23, 2011
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
- Date of decision
- May 27, 2021
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
- Date of decision
- May 31, 2021
Judgment
Décision n° 2015 465 QPC du 24 avril 2015 Conseil constitutionnel
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Country
- France
- Language of Decision
- French
- Date of decision
- Apr 24, 2015
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
- 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
- Date of decision
- Jan 14, 1999
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
- Date of decision
- Dec 2, 2017
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
- Date of decision
- Feb 1, 2019
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
- Date of decision
- May 28, 2021
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
- Date of decision
- Dec 15, 2020
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
- 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
- Date of decision
- Oct 23, 2020
Judgment
EVMs in 2005 German Elections
- 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
VerfGH Thuringia, 07/15/2020 - VerfGH 2/20
- Question Presented
- Is a gender quota statute constitutional?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Quotas
- Country
- Germany
- Language of Decision
- German
- Date of decision
- Jul 15, 2020
Judgment
Hong Kong Police Force v. Electoral Affairs Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether a publicly accessible voter list violates the right to privacy?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Voter Registration
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 5, 2020
Judgment
In re the Icelandic Presidential Election of 2012
- Question Presented
- Whether the inability of disabled voters to cast secret ballots is sufficient grounds for annulling election results.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Accessibility
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Iceland
- Language of Decision
- Icelandic
- Date of decision
- Jun 6, 2012
Judgment
In re 2016 Election of President of Iceland
- Question Presented
- Whether the prohibition of voters from signing support petitions for multiple candidates conflicts with Act. No. 36. 1945. Whether the plaintiff has a cause of action before elections take place.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Civil Procedure
- Country
- Iceland
- Language of Decision
- Icelandic
- Date of decision
- Jun 15, 2016
Judgment
In re Constituent Assembly Elections of 2011
- Question Presented
- Whether the right to secrecy was violated in the 2011 election sufficient to annul the election results.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Iceland
- Language of Decision
- Icelandic
- Date of decision
- Jan 6, 2011
Judgment
Swamy v. Election Commission
- Question Presented
- Are current EVMs up to international standards? Is a paper trail/receipt necessary in electronic voting?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electronic Voting
- Country
- India
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 8, 2013
Judgment
In Re Dispute Case No. 1 of 1999
- Question Presented
- Whether two rival groups within the same political party may utilize the same political symbol on the eve of elections.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Party Registration
- Country
- India
- Language of Decision
- Arabic
- English
- Date of decision
- Aug 7, 1999
Judgment