Search Tips
120 shown of 357 entities
13 columns hidden
Title | Date added | Date modified | Template | Question Presented | Legal Issue(s) | Country | Language of Decision | Date of decision | Legal Issue and/or Topic | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gugum Ridho Putra v. Indonesia | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 | Judgment | Can Indonesian political candidates alter their "self-image" by posting and utilizing pictures and videos to substantively polish or change their political image? Does the Indonesian voter have a right to truthful information about candidates that is violated by excessive "self-image" manipulation done through AI technology? |
| Indonesia |
| Jan 2, 2025 | ||
Călin Georgescu v. Romania | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 | Judgment | Did the Constitutional Court of Romania err in annulling the first round of elections or infringe upon Georgescu's right to a free election? |
| Romania |
| Mar 6, 2025 | ||
Evandro Sá Barreto Leitão v. André Fernandes de Moura | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 | Judgment | Did defendant Leitao violate Brazilian Electoral Law when he posted and disseminated artificial intelligence generated videos of international celebrities including Barack Obama, Taylor Swift, Tom Cruise, and Cristiano Ronaldo endorsing his 2024 mayoral campaign on his TikTok profile? |
| Brazil |
| May 8, 2026 | ||
Partido Liberal v. Ricardo Pereira | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 | Judgment | Was the defendant Pereira liable for generating and disseminating an AI deepfake image masquerading as a “leaked photo”, which falsely portrayed a group of Brazilian politicians meeting over brunch? |
| Brazil |
| Jun 8, 2026 | ||
Allen v. Milligan | Jul 15, 2026 | Jul 15, 2026 | Judgment | Whether Alabama's 2021 congressional redistricting plan (HB1) — which created only one majority-Black district out of seven in a state that is 27% Black — violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voting strength. |
| United States of America |
| Jun 8, 2023 | ||
Abbott v. Perez | Jul 14, 2026 | Jul 14, 2026 | Judgment | Whether the 2013 Texas congressional and state House redistricting plans violated the Equal Protection Clause (racial gerrymandering), Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (vote dilution), and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments (intentional discrimination) — and specifically whether the district court erred by finding that the 2011 discriminatory intent "carried over" into the 2013 plans enacted by the Legislature; holding that certain districts were racial gerrymanders where race was the predominant factor; finding Section 2 vote dilution in certain districts where plaintiffs could not demonstrate that an additional compact minority opportunity district was possible; and applying the wrong legal standard in distinguishing between racial motivation and partisan motivation in redistricting. |
| United States of America |
| Jun 25, 2018 | ||
McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission | Jul 14, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | Judgment | Whether the Federal Election Campaign Act's (FECA) aggregate contribution limits — which cap the total amount an individual may contribute to all federal candidates and political committees combined in a two-year election cycle — violated the First Amendment by restricting political speech and association beyond what was necessary to prevent quid pro quo corruption. The specific question was whether the aggregate limits were "closely drawn" to the government's anti-circumvention interest, or whether they constituted an unconstitutional "outright ban" on further contributions to additional candidates and committees — particularly given that the base limits already prevented any single donor from giving more than the statutory maximum to any individual candidate or committee. |
| United States of America |
| Apr 2, 2014 | ||
Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz for Senate | Jul 14, 2026 | Jul 14, 2026 | Judgment | Whether Section 304 of BCRA — which limits the amount of post-election contributions that a campaign may use to repay a candidate's personal loans to the campaign — violated the First Amendment by burdening core political speech. The specific question was whether the Government could demonstrate that the loan-repayment limitation was "closely drawn" to a sufficiently important interest — namely, preventing quid pro quo corruption or its appearance — given that the limitation deters candidates from loaning money to their campaigns by increasing the risk that such loans will not be fully repaid. |
| United States of America |
| May 16, 2022 | ||
McConnell v. Federal Election Commission | Jul 14, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | Judgment | Whether the two principal features of Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) — (1) the soft-money ban on national, state, and local political parties (Title I), and (2) the regulation of electioneering communications by corporations and unions, including disclosure requirements (Title II) — violated the First Amendment's protections of free speech and association. Subsidiary issues included whether BCRA exceeded Congress's Elections Clause authority, violated principles of federalism, violated equal protection by treating political parties differently from interest groups, and whether specific provisions (including the ban on contributions by minors, the "choice" provision requiring parties to choose between coordinated and independent expenditures, and various disclosure requirements) were constitutional. |
| United States of America |
| Dec 10, 2003 | ||
Federal Election Committee v. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee | Jul 14, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | Judgment | Whether FECA's limits on a political party's coordinated expenditures — spending made by a party in cooperation, consultation, or concert with a candidate — are constitutional under the First Amendment as a means of preventing circumvention of the base contribution limits. Specifically, whether a party's coordinated expenditures, which function like contributions to the candidate, may be restricted to prevent donors from funneling large contributions through a party to a candidate. |
| United States of America |
| Jun 25, 2001 | ||
Shaw v. Reno | Jul 14, 2026 | Jul 14, 2026 | Judgment | Whether a plaintiff may state a cognizable claim under the Equal Protection Clause by alleging that a legislature, though race-neutral on its face, drew district boundaries so bizarrely irregular that they can only be understood as an effort to separate voters into different districts on the basis of race — and whether such a racial gerrymander, even without proof of vote dilution, triggers strict scrutiny as a racial classification. |
| United States of America |
| Jun 28, 1993 | ||
Buckley v. Valeo | Jul 12, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | Judgment | Whether the various provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) — including limits on contributions, limits on expenditures (both by candidates and independent spenders), disclosure requirements, the public financing of presidential campaigns, and the structure of the FEC — violated the First Amendment's protection of political speech and association, the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection, and the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. The central question was whether the government's interest in preventing corruption and the appearance of corruption in federal elections could justify restrictions on political spending, and if so, which restrictions. |
| United States of America |
| Jan 30, 1976 | ||
Baker v. Carr | Jul 12, 2026 | Jul 12, 2026 | Judgment | Whether a claim alleging that a state's legislative apportionment scheme violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment — by diluting the voting power of citizens in overpopulated districts — presents a justiciable controversy or is a non-justiciable "political question" that federal courts lack authority to adjudicate. This issue required the Court to revisit and overturn the precedent of Colegrove v. Green, 328 U.S. 549 (1946), which had held that federal courts should not intervene in reapportionment disputes. |
| United States of America |
| Mar 26, 1962 | ||
Cooper v. Harris | Jul 12, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | Judgment | Whether North Carolina's 2011 congressional redistricting plan used race as the predominant factor in drawing Districts 1 and 12, thereby triggering strict scrutiny — and, if so, whether the State's use of race was narrowly tailored to a compelling government interest (specifically, compliance with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act). A subsidiary issue was whether the legislature's pursuit of partisan advantage could explain the racial composition of the districts, thereby negating the claim that race predominated. |
| United States of America |
| May 22, 2017 | ||
Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee | Jul 10, 2026 | Jul 10, 2026 | Judgment | Whether Arizona's out-of-precinct ballot policy and ballot collection ban (HB 2023) violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and more broadly, what legal standard governs Section 2 challenges to "time, place, or manner" voting rules—specifically, whether the "totality of the circumstances" test from Thornburg v. Gingles and the Senate Factors applies to challenges to facially neutral voting procedures. |
| United States of America |
| Jul 1, 2021 | ||
Shelby County v. Holder | Jul 9, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 | Judgment | Whether the coverage formula in Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act — which determined which jurisdictions were subject to the preclearance requirement of Section 5 — remained constitutionally valid after Congress reauthorized it in 2006 without updating the formula, given that the formula was based on decades-old data (voter registration and turnout from the 1960s and early 1970s) and practices (literacy tests) that had since been banned nationwide. More broadly, whether the formula violated the constitutional principle of equal sovereignty among the states by subjecting only certain jurisdictions to the extraordinary federal intrusion of preclearance. |
| United States of America |
| Jun 25, 2013 | ||
Sentencia T-487/03 | Jul 9, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 | Judgment | Whether the failure of the Registraduría to provide Braille electoral ballots to visually impaired voters violated their fundamental rights to political participation (Article 40 of the Constitution), equality (Article 13), and human dignity (Article 1) — and whether the provision of Braille ballots is a constitutionally mandated necessary consequence of the state's obligation to promote real and effective equality (igualdad real) for persons with disabilities. |
| Colombia |
| Jun 11, 2003 | ||
Sentencia C-025/21 | Jul 9, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 | Judgment | Whether Article 6 of Law 1996 of 2019, which establishes the presumption of full legal capacity for all persons with disabilities regardless of whether they use supports, is constitutional; whether Article 53 of Law 1996 of 2019, which repealed all provisions related to interdiction and inhabilitation in the Colombian legal system, is constitutional; and whether the shift from a substitute decision-making model (guardianship/interdiction) to a supported decision-making model is consistent with the Colombian Constitution and Colombia's international obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), ratified by Colombia via Act 1346 of 2009. |
| Colombia |
| Feb 4, 2021 | ||
In the Matter of William Pughsley | Jul 9, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 | Judgment | Whether the circuit court erred in disqualifying William Pughsley from voting by applying an improper "base level understanding" standard—rather than the statutory standard of whether the individual can communicate, with or without accommodations, a desire to participate in the voting process—and whether the court erred in denying accommodations and the Supported Decision-Making Act petition. |
| United States of America |
| |||
Kasozi & 3 Ors v Attorney General & 2 Ors | Jul 9, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 | Judgment | Whether forcing PWDs to be members of NUDIPU-affiliated associations to vote (as per Regulation 10) violated their constitutional rights, including the freedom of association (Article 29(1)(e)), the right to participate in public affairs (Article 38(1)), the right to redress (Article 50(1)), and the right to vote (Article 59(1)); Whether Parliament unconstitutionally abdicated its mandate under Article 78(4) of the Constitution by delegating the power to create electoral procedures to a Minister instead of prescribing them directly through legislation; and whether the legal framework for PWD elections, particularly after the 2013 legislative amendments, was constitutional. |
| Uganda |
| Sep 29, 2015 | ||
August v Electoral Commission of South Africa | Jul 9, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 | Judgment | Whether prisoners retained their constitutional right to vote under the 1996 Constitution, and, if so, whether the IEC was obligated to take active steps to facilitate their registration and voting, particularly in the absence of any parliamentary legislation that explicitly disenfranchised them. |
| South Africa |
| Apr 1, 1999 | ||
Emily's List v. FEC | Jul 8, 2026 | Jul 8, 2026 | Judgment | Whether the FEC's regulations requiring non-profit political committees to use federally regulated ("hard money") funds for at least 50% of their administrative, voter drive, and public communications costs—and restricting how such groups may solicit contributions—violate the First Amendment's protection of political speech and association, particularly in light of the Supreme Court's intervening decisions in FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life (2007) and Davis v. FEC (2008). |
| United States of America |
| Sep 18, 2009 | ||
Gomillion v. Lightfoot | Jul 8, 2026 | Jul 8, 2026 | Judgment | Whether a state legislature's redefinition of municipal boundaries—designed to exclude African American voters from a city—violates the Fifteenth Amendment, and whether such a legislative act is subject to federal judicial review despite the legislature's general authority to define municipal boundaries. |
| United States of America |
| Nov 14, 1960 | ||
National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission | Jul 8, 2026 | Jul 8, 2026 | Judgment | Whether FECA's limits on political parties' coordinated expenditures with candidates violate the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech, and specifically whether Colorado II—which upheld those limits under a deferential standard of review—remains good law in light of the Court's subsequent, more demanding campaign finance jurisprudence requiring that restrictions be "necessary," "narrowly tailored," and not "disproportionate" to the government's interest in preventing quid pro quo corruption. |
| United States of America |
| Jun 30, 2026 | ||
Moore v. Harper | Jul 8, 2026 | Jul 8, 2026 | Judgment | Whether the Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, § 4, cl. 1)—which provides that "[t]he Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof"—vests exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set the rules for federal elections, insulating them from review by state courts applying state constitutional constraints. |
| United States of America |
| Jun 27, 2023 | ||
Louisiana v. Callais | Jul 8, 2026 | Jul 8, 2026 | Judgment | Whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 provides a compelling reason that may justify the intentional use of race in drawing legislative districts. |
| United States of America |
| Apr 29, 2026 | ||
Richter v. Minister of Home Affairs | Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | Judgment | Whether Section 33(1)(b) and Section 33(1)(e) of the Electoral Act 73 of 1998 — which limited the "special vote" to South African citizens absent from the Republic only if they were on "government service" (or members of the household of such persons), while effectively excluding all other citizens living or working abroad — unjustifiably limited the constitutional right to vote under Section 19(3)(a) of the Constitution, read with the rights to equality (Section 9(1)), human dignity (Section 10), and equal citizenship (Section 3(2)(a)). |
| South Africa |
| Feb 9, 2009 | ||
Brotherton N.O. v. Electoral Commission of Zambia | Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | Judgment | Did the Electoral Commission of Zambia violate the fundamental voting rights of disabled voters by failing to provide adequate facilites? |
| Zambia |
| Sep 18, 2011 | ||
San Antonio Acha v. García Vélez | Jul 7, 2026 | Aug 21, 2026 | Judgment | Whether the Puerto Rico State Elections Commission (CEE) violated the due process rights of voters with mobility impairments by denying their early voting applications (voto adelantado) based on alleged deficiencies in their forms — including missing signatures, incomplete information, and suspected fraud (e.g., dozens of applications certified by the same physician on the same date) — while simultaneously failing to provide timely notice of those denials, thereby depriving the voters of any meaningful opportunity to cure the defects before the November 8, 2016 general election. |
| Puerto Rico |
| Nov 4, 2016 | ||
Merrill v. People First of Alabama | Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | Judgment | Whether the Alabama Secretary of State’s prohibition on curbside voting violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the First and Fourteenth Amendments by denying reasonable accommodations to voters with disabilities during the pandemic. |
| United States of America |
| Oct 21, 2020 | ||
Bujdoso v. Hungary | Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | Judgment | Whether Hungary's automatic disenfranchisement of persons with disabilities placed under guardianship—without individualized assessment of their capacity to vote and based solely on their disability status—violates articles 2, 12, and 29 of the CRPD. |
| Hungary |
| Oct 16, 2013 | ||
Purohit & Moore v. The Gambia | Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | Judgment | Did The Gambia violate the fundamental rights of disabled voters? |
| Gambia |
| May 29, 2003 | ||
Caamaño Valle v. Spain | Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | Judgment | Whether the rescission of voting rights for disabled person under guardianship based on individualized assessment is legal under Article 3, Protocol No. 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights. |
| Spain |
| Aug 11, 2021 | ||
Molka v. Poland | Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | Judgment | Did Poland violate the European Charter of Human Rights by being indifferent to the inaccessibility of poll stations? |
| Poland |
| Apr 11, 2006 | ||
Strøbye & Rosenlind v. Denmark | Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | Judgment | Whether the automatic removal of persons contravened Article 3, Protocol No. 1 of European Convention on Human Rights and, consequently, constituted illegal discrimination under Article 14 under the same Convention. |
| Denmark |
| Feb 2, 2021 | ||
Anatoliy Marinov v. Bulgaria | Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | Judgment | Whether the automatic removal of a voter's rights under partial guardianship contravenes Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Furthermore, whether the blanket provision of removal is proportional to the state's legitimate aims and whether the absence of individualized judicial review deprives a voter's due process rights. |
| Bulgaria |
| Feb 28, 2022 | ||
Alajos Kiss v. Hungary | Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | Judgment | Whether Hungary's voting restriction was proportional and legitimate under Article 1, Protocol 3 |
| Hungary |
| May 20, 2010 | ||
Tennessee v. Lane | Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | Judgment | Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act validly abrogates state sovereign immunity under the 11th Amendment and whether people with disabilities have a right to access courts to lodge fundamental rights claims, including electoral disputes. |
| United States of America |
| May 17, 2004 | ||
Watson v. Republican National Committee | Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | Judgment | Do federal election-day statutes preempt state laws allowing ballots cast by Election Day to be received and counted after that date? |
| United States of America |
| Jun 29, 2026 | ||
Shashi Tharoor v. Ashok Kumar & Ors | Jun 30, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | Judgment | Did AI deepfake videos interfere with elections to a high enough degree to require an injunction? |
| India |
| May 8, 2026 | ||
Toplak & Mrak v. Slovenia | Jun 30, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | Judgment | Whether Slovenia violated Arts. 3, 14 of Protocol No. 1 that guarentees free elections and non-discrimination |
| Slovenia |
| Oct 26, 2010 | ||
CH-02 | Apr 30, 2025 | Apr 30, 2025 | Judgment | Are elements of the national electoral code that define allotment of legislative seats across the country's 10 districts (based off population patterns and anticipated growth in 1987) in conflict with the Constitution, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the American Convention of Human Rights, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? |
| Suriname |
| Aug 5, 2022 | ||
2018Hun-Ma551 | Nov 1, 2024 | Nov 1, 2024 | Judgment | Whether prohibiting elementary and secondary schoolteachers from establishing and joining political parties unreasonably infringes on their right to freedom of association. Whether the ban on elementary and secondary schoolteachers creating or being members of “other political organizations” as stated in Article 65(1) of the State Public Officials Act is clear and meets the balancing test set up by the court to justify a restriction on political rights. |
| South Korea |
| Apr 23, 2020 | ||
Electoral Justice for All: A Practitioner's Guide to Increasing Women's Access to Electoral Justice | Oct 1, 2024 | Oct 1, 2024 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij v. the Netherlands | Aug 9, 2024 | Aug 9, 2024 | Judgment | 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? |
| Netherlands |
| Jul 10, 2012 | ||
Kitute v. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission | Aug 9, 2024 | Aug 9, 2024 | Judgment | 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? |
| Kenya |
| Nov 6, 2017 | ||
Odinga, et. al v. Ruto | Aug 9, 2024 | Aug 9, 2024 | Judgment | 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? |
| Kenya |
| Sep 5, 2022 | ||
Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP | Aug 9, 2024 | Aug 9, 2024 | Judgment | Whether the South Carolina legislature “subordinated” race-neutral districting criteria to draw a Congressional district map in the state and overtly relied on racial considerations. |
| United States of America |
| May 23, 2024 | ||
Nmalamuwomu v. Shadrack | Jan 31, 2024 | Jan 31, 2024 | Judgment | Whether the filing deadline for an election petition alleging vote buying made up to and on polling day runs for 21 days after the alleged payment,, or 21 days after the election result is released in the Official Gazette?. |
| Vanuatu | Jun 24, 2020 | |||
Barthelemy v. President of the Republic of Vanuatu | Jan 31, 2024 | Jul 22, 2026 | Judgment | (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? |
| Vanuatu | Sep 9, 2022 | |||
Wale v. Attorney-General | Jan 31, 2024 | Jan 31, 2024 | Judgment | (1) Whether an unregistered party is considered a “non-contesting party” and is thus prohibited from forming a coalition with registered parties or independent groups in Parliament. (2) Whether the party registration requirement under the Political Party law to prove a certain number of registered voters support the formation of a party interferes with the voluntary nature of political parties and is a violation of the constitutional rights to freedom of association and assembly? |
| Solomon Islands | Nov 14, 2014 | |||
Samuel v. Chief Electoral Officer et al. | Jan 24, 2024 | Jan 24, 2024 | Judgment | (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? |
| Marshall Islands |
| Aug 31, 2018 | ||
Lessons on the Use of Technology in Elections | Nov 8, 2023 | Nov 8, 2023 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Lessons on Disinformation and Election Disputes | Nov 7, 2023 | Nov 8, 2023 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Alternative Dispute Resolution in Elections: Practitioner Brief | May 5, 2023 | May 5, 2023 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Madhav Prasad Paudel and others vs Office of the PM, Local development Ministry, Election Commission Nepal et. al | Jan 13, 2023 | Jan 13, 2023 | Judgment | Whether the failure to hold local elections due to the absence of the required legal framework violates the right to periodic elections during the interim constitutional period. Whether the conduct of local government affairs by non-elected government employees violates the Local Self Government Act. |
| Nepal |
| Nov 7, 2012 | ||
Chaturman Beda vs Election Special Court and others | Jan 13, 2023 | Jan 13, 2023 | Judgment | Whether the ineligibility of a winning candidate due to his age should result in declaring the runner-up candidate as the winner of the election or invalidating the entire election result. |
| Nepal |
| Feb 14, 1990 | ||
Advocate Prem Chandra Rai vs Government of Nepal | Jan 13, 2023 | Jan 13, 2023 | Judgment | Whether Nepali citizens residing abroad should be given the opportunity to vote from the country in which they currently reside. Whether restricted voting rights on Nepali citizens living abroad violates the constitutional right to vote. |
| Nepal |
| Mar 21, 2018 | ||
City for All List, et. al v. Palestinian Central Election Commission, et. al | Jan 4, 2023 | Jan 4, 2023 | Judgment | 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. |
| Palestine |
| Apr 23, 2017 | ||
Palmer v. Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) | Oct 14, 2022 | Oct 14, 2022 | Judgment | 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. |
| Australia |
| Aug 14, 2019 | ||
Monroy Hernandez v. Molano Granados | Oct 14, 2022 | Oct 14, 2022 | Judgment | 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. |
| Colombia |
| Mar 12, 2020 | ||
Bench Book on Electoral Dispute Resolution | Oct 12, 2022 | Oct 12, 2022 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Decision 207183 | Sep 19, 2022 | Sep 19, 2022 | Judgment | Whether the Sabac City Assembly was the proper authority to hear a challenge about the conduct of a referendum. |
| Serbia |
| Feb 3, 2022 | ||
Decision No. 1 (1995) | Sep 16, 2022 | Sep 16, 2022 | Judgment | 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. |
| Lebanon |
| Nov 2, 1995 | ||
Decision No. 207182 | Sep 16, 2022 | Sep 16, 2022 | Judgment | 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. |
| Serbia |
| Feb 3, 2022 | ||
Decision 701/2020 | Sep 16, 2022 | Sep 16, 2022 | Judgment | Whether the Brosteni Constituency Electoral Bureau’s (BEC) decision to reject a former vice mayor seeking to run for the mayor and local councilor elections, based on a report by the National Integrity Agency alleging that he had conflicts of interest, was improper. |
| Romania |
| Aug 17, 2020 | ||
Decision 378/2020 | Sep 16, 2022 | Sep 16, 2022 | Judgment | Whether the Bistrita Năsăud Electoral Bureau (BECJ BN)’s decision to reject the registration of appellant electoral alliance USR-PLUS’s list of four candidates for the 2020 parliamentary elections was incorrect even though the appellant did not properly include the candidates’ genders, as is required by law for Chamber of Deputies and Senate elections. |
| Romania |
| Oct 26, 2020 | ||
In the Matter of Rudolph W. Giuliani | Sep 16, 2022 | Sep 16, 2022 | Judgment | 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. |
| United States of America |
| Apr 4, 2022 | ||
2018Hun-Ma456 | Sep 14, 2022 | Sep 14, 2022 | Judgment | Whether the Public Official Election Act’s required verification of internet users when they post election-related content online during a campaign violates freedom of expression, freedom of anonymous speech, freedom of the press and the right to informational self-determination. |
| South Korea |
| Jan 28, 2021 | ||
2017Hun-Ma813 | Sep 14, 2022 | Sep 14, 2022 | Judgment | Whether any of the following alleged acts violate citizens’ constitutional rights to vote or equality under the law: 1) denying a soldier’s request to watch presidential election interviews and debates; 2) requiring election campaign bulletins written in braille to be within the page limits for booklet-type campaign bulletins; and 3) failing to require Korean sign language or captions in all election-related broadcasts. |
| South Korea |
| Aug 28, 2020 | ||
Odhiambo Oduol v. Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission | Sep 14, 2022 | Sep 14, 2022 | Judgment | Whether petitioner’s affidavit verifying a video recording meets the evidentiary burden outlined in Section 107 of the Evidence Act relating to electronic evidence. |
| Kenya |
| Jun 5, 2013 | ||
Ledezma Acosta v. Ausecha Ordóñez and Armando Guevara Bravo | Sep 13, 2022 | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | 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. |
| Colombia |
| Sep 17, 2020 | ||
Núñez de Armas v. Magdaniel Hernández | Sep 13, 2022 | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | 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. |
| Colombia |
| Dec 16, 2020 | ||
Ramos Rojas v. Sanabria Chacón | Sep 13, 2022 | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | 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. |
| Colombia |
| Dec 3, 2020 | ||
Zambrano Castro v. National Electoral Council | Sep 13, 2022 | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | 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. |
| Colombia |
| Oct 29, 2020 | ||
Ortiz Daza v. Act Declaring the Election of Candelo Riascos | Sep 13, 2022 | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | 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. |
| Colombia |
| Dec 10, 2020 | ||
Ospina Carballo v. Restrepo Gallego | Sep 13, 2022 | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | 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. |
| Colombia |
| Nov 5, 2020 | ||
Medina Padilla v. Aguilar Hurtado | Sep 13, 2022 | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | 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. |
| Colombia |
| Aug 20, 2020 | ||
Masumba v. Kamondo | Sep 13, 2022 | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | 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. |
| Zambia |
| Nov 17, 2017 | ||
Marube Ombeta, Kamotho Njenga v. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission | Sep 13, 2022 | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | 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. |
| Kenya |
| Jun 13, 2022 | ||
State of Washington v. Facebook, Inc. | Sep 13, 2022 | Sep 13, 2022 | Judgment | Whether Facebook violated election law by not maintaining records of their political advertising and failing to make those records available to the public. |
| United States of America |
| Jun 8, 2018 | ||
Election Dispute Resolution Report 2020 | Dec 23, 2021 | Dec 23, 2021 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Election Case Law Analysis Series: Lessons for Regulating Campaigning on Social Media | Dec 22, 2021 | Dec 22, 2021 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Election Case Law Analysis Series: Lessons on Gender Equality and Women’s Political Participation | Dec 22, 2021 | Dec 22, 2021 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Guide Electoral, Tome III Référencement jurisprudentiel 2006-2018 | Dec 22, 2021 | Dec 22, 2021 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Manuel de Capitalisation des Bonnes Pratiques en Matière de Contentieux Électoral dans l'Espace Francophone | Dec 22, 2021 | Dec 22, 2021 | Resources |
|
| |||||
O’Rourke v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc | Nov 30, 2021 | Nov 30, 2021 | Judgment | Whether to impose sanctions on the Plaintiff's attorneys for filing frivolous litigation. |
| United States of America |
| Aug 3, 2021 | ||
King v. Whitmer | Nov 29, 2021 | Nov 30, 2021 | Judgment | 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. |
| United States of America |
| Aug 25, 2021 | ||
SUP-REP-16/2016 Y SUP-REP-22/2016 ACUMULADOS | Oct 26, 2021 | Oct 26, 2021 | Judgment | Whether the Green Party of Mexico and various famous persons were rightfully sanctioned for alleged campaign violations. |
| Mexico |
| Apr 20, 2016 | ||
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 | Oct 26, 2021 | Oct 26, 2021 | Judgment | Whether the 2018 mayoral election in Chisinau were appropriately annulled due to violations of the electoral silence period on election day. |
| Moldova |
| Jun 25, 2018 | ||
Electoral Justice: Here, Now, Tomorrow [The Case of Serbia] | Oct 25, 2021 | Oct 25, 2021 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Albayda Judgment - Emergency Procedural Ruling | Oct 19, 2021 | Oct 25, 2021 | Judgment | 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. | Libya |
| Dec 19, 2016 | |||
Albayda Judgment – Ali Tarhouni Case II (2016) | Oct 19, 2021 | Oct 19, 2021 | Judgment | Whether the chairman of the CDA lost his Libyan citizenship and eligibility for office by obtaining American citizenship and marrying a foreigner. |
| Libya |
| Nov 28, 2016 | ||
The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia v. The Harari Peoples’ Regional State, Harari National Congress | Oct 19, 2021 | Oct 19, 2021 | Judgment | 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. |
| Ethiopia |
| May 27, 2021 | ||
VerfGH Thuringia, 07/15/2020 - VerfGH 2/20 | Oct 19, 2021 | Oct 19, 2021 | Judgment | Is a gender quota statute constitutional? |
| Germany |
| Jul 15, 2020 | ||
VerfGBbg, judgment of 23 October 2020 - VfGBbg 9/19 | Oct 19, 2021 | Oct 19, 2021 | Judgment | Are gender quotas constitutional? |
| Germany |
| Oct 23, 2020 | ||
VerfGBbg, judgment of 23. October 2020 - VfGBbg 55/19 | Oct 19, 2021 | Oct 19, 2021 | Judgment | Whether the gender quota under the Parity Act is constitutional |
| Germany |
| Oct 23, 2020 | ||
Supreme Court of Samoa, Faatuatua I Le Atua Samoa Ua Tasi (F.A.S.T. Party) v. Electoral Commissioner | Oct 19, 2021 | Oct 19, 2021 | Judgment | A couple of questions are presented to the Supreme Court. First, whether the Electoral Commissioner acted unlawfully when he activated Article 44(1A) and whether they are mandated to implement Article 44(1A), and if so, the timeframe to invoke it. |
| Samoa |
| May 14, 2021 | ||
Guidelines for National Political Parties and, where appropriate, Local Political Parties, to prevent, attend, sanction, repair and eradicate political violence against women based on gender | Oct 6, 2021 | Oct 6, 2021 | Resources |
|
| |||||
BVerfG, decision of the Second Senate of December 15, 2020 | Oct 6, 2021 | Oct 6, 2021 | Judgment | 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. |
| Germany |
| Dec 15, 2020 | ||
In the Matter of Rudolph W. Giuliani, an Attorney (United States) | Aug 18, 2021 | Aug 18, 2021 | Judgment | Whether Mr. Giuliani’s conduct, as a lawyer perpetuating false statements about widespread voter fraud during the 2020 United States presidential election, violated New York's professional rules of conduct? |
| United States of America |
| Jun 24, 2021 | ||
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). | Jul 26, 2021 | Aug 5, 2021 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Conseil d'État (CE), 6ème chambre, 28 May 2021, N° 445567 (unpublished in Lebon collection) | Jul 20, 2021 | Aug 5, 2021 | Judgment | 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. |
| France |
| May 28, 2021 | ||
Conseil d'État (CE), 4ème chambre, 31 May 2021, N° 441849 (unpublished in Lebon collection) | Jul 20, 2021 | Jul 21, 2021 | Judgment | 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. |
| France |
| May 31, 2021 | ||
(Mexico) SUP 2020 REC 102 924628 | Jul 1, 2021 | Aug 5, 2021 | Judgment | Whether indigenous customs for men to elect political leaders outweigh the principles of non-discrimination, equality and gender parity, as well as the right of "every woman [...] to a life free of violence, both in the public and private spheres" and to "freely and fully exercise their political rights.” |
| Mexico |
| Sep 15, 2020 | ||
(Mexico) SM JDC 0167 2021 | Jul 1, 2021 | Jul 21, 2021 | Judgment | Whether it was incorrect that the request for a citizen's trial that he filed in the initial instance was processed as a complaint, considering that this is the ideal way in which a favorable resolution could be obtained that guarantees the inclusion of members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Whether political parties are obligated to have a quota for candidates that identify as LGBTQIA+ to guarantee their inclusion in the political process. |
| Mexico |
| Mar 31, 2021 | ||
(Mexico) SCM JDC 0412 2021 | Jul 1, 2021 | Jul 21, 2021 | Judgment | 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. |
| Mexico |
| Apr 3, 2021 | ||
(Mexico) SX JE 0003 2021 | Jun 23, 2021 | Jul 21, 2021 | Judgment | Whether there were procedural irregularities in the lower court’s decision based on the timeliness of the complaint and lack of notice by the court. Whether evidence from Facebook and WhatsApp demonstrating gender based political violence were illegally obtained and possess the truth and veracity it asserts. |
| Mexico |
| Jan 21, 2021 | ||
Budding Democracy or Judicialisation: Lessons from Africa’s Emerging Electoral Jurisprudence | Jun 4, 2021 | Jun 4, 2021 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Plaaslike Besorgde Inwoners v. Independent Electoral Commission | Feb 17, 2021 | Feb 17, 2021 | Judgment | Whether the municipal government elections for four wards in the George Local Municipality should be annulled due to alleged wrongs and irregularities in the voting and counting procedures. |
| South Africa |
| Jan 5, 2021 | ||
Election Investigations Guidebook | Dec 28, 2020 | Dec 28, 2020 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Trump for President, Inc. v. Boockvar | Dec 28, 2020 | Dec 28, 2020 | Judgment | Whether it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution for Pennsylvania to give counties the discretion to adopt "notice and cure" policies (to provide notice to voters whose mail-in ballots were procedurally defective and an opportunity to cure their ballots). |
| United States of America |
| Nov 21, 2020 | ||
Germin Organization v. Central Election Commission | Oct 15, 2020 | Oct 15, 2020 | Judgment | 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. |
| Kosovo |
| Oct 19, 2019 | ||
Western Native Voice v. Stapleton | Oct 9, 2020 | Oct 15, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the Ballot Interference Prevention Act violates the Plaintiff’s right to vote, right to free speech, right to association, and due process. |
| United States of America |
| Sep 25, 2020 | ||
In re Article 27 (3) & (8) of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 | Oct 2, 2020 | Nov 6, 2020 | Judgment | Whether failure to enact the two-third gender rule despite Court orders to do so calls for dissolvement of the Parliament. |
| Kenya |
| Sep 21, 2020 | ||
Karnwea v. National Elections Commission | Oct 1, 2020 | Nov 6, 2020 | Judgment | Whether an investigation is necessary to prohibit a candidate from running when they allegedly do not meet the qualifications? Whether the Election Commission may go beyond the statutorily prescribed penalties for not meeting a qualification? |
| Liberia |
| Jul 20, 2017 | ||
Georgian Labour Party v. Georgia | Sep 23, 2020 | Oct 14, 2020 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Incal v. Turkey | Sep 23, 2020 | Oct 14, 2020 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Grosaru v. Romania | Sep 23, 2020 | Oct 14, 2020 | Resources |
|
| |||||
Communist Party of Russia v. Russia | Sep 23, 2020 | Oct 14, 2020 | Resources |
|
|