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Title | Date added | Template | Question Presented | Legal Issue(s) | Country | Language of Decision | Date of decision |
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Advocate Prem Chandra Rai vs Government of Nepal | 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 | 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 |
Odhiambo Oduol v. Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission | 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 |
Núñez de Armas v. Magdaniel Hernández | 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 | 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 |
Ospina Carballo v. Restrepo Gallego | 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 | 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 |
SUP-REP-16/2016 Y SUP-REP-22/2016 ACUMULADOS | 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 |
The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia v. The Harari Peoples’ Regional State, Harari National Congress | 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 |
Review of the Constitutionality of Section Five of the Riigikogu Election Act | Jun 26, 2020 | Judgment |
| Estonia |
| May 18, 2017 | |
1996 (Gyo Tsu) 28 [Judgment of the Second Petty Bench, partially dismissed, partially quashed, and partially terminated] | Jun 29, 2020 | Judgment | Whether denying absentee ballots to voters outside of the country for official ballots is sufficient to dispute the election result. |
| Japan |
| May 31, 1996 |
Aryeh Bain v. Chief Electoral Officer | Jun 23, 2020 | Judgment | Whether setting election day as a Jewish holiday violates the right to vote? |
| Canada |
| Jun 26, 2019 |
2017 (Gyo Tsu) 47 [Judgments concerning the constitutionality of the provisions on the apportionment of seats for members (to be elected by constituency) of the House of Councillors stipulated in Article 14 and Appended Table 3 of the Public Offices Election Act] | Jun 29, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the electoral code system, in light of the migration from constituencies, should be declared unconstitutional? |
| Japan |
| Sep 17, 2017 |
Mutharika v. Chilima | Jun 8, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the standard that candidate must receive a majority of the votes means the highest percentage of votes or over 50%? |
| Malawi |
| May 8, 2020 |
McEwing v. Attorney General | Jun 23, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the phone calls had any impact on the final election results and if those results were sufficient to annul the election results. |
| Canada |
| May 23, 2013 |
Wisconsin Legislature v. Evers (state Supreme Court Decision, please see United States Supreme Court order on the application for stay) | Jun 2, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the Governor may suspend election laws two days before the election? |
| United States of America |
| Apr 6, 2020 |
Quinn Leandro v. Jonas | Jun 20, 2019 | Judgment |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
| Oct 27, 2010 | |
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission | Jul 22, 2019 | Judgment | 1) Did the Supreme Court's decision in McConnell resolve all constitutional as-applied challenges to the BCRA when it upheld the disclosure requirements of the statute as constitutional? 2) Do the BCRA's disclosure requirements impose an unconstitutional burden when applied to electioneering requirements because they are protected "political speech" and not subject to regulation as "campaign speech"? 3) If a communication lacks a clear plea to vote for or against a particular candidate, is it subject to regulation under the BCRA? 4) Should a feature length documentary about a candidate for political office be treated like the advertisements at issue in McConnell and therefore be subject to regulation under the BCRA? |
| United States of America |
| Jan 21, 2010 |
MOREA v. Party of Institutional Revolutionary (SUP 2015 REP 544 499367) | Aug 7, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the dissemination of campaign materials on twitter accounts of candidate and alternate candidates violate the electoral silence laws? |
| Mexico |
| Apr 20, 2016 |
Republication National Commitee v. Democratic National Committe (Wisconsin) | Jun 2, 2020 | Judgment | Whether absentee ballots must be postmarked by the original election date. |
| United States of America |
| Apr 6, 2020 |
Nisma-Akr-PD v. Polling Station 211B | May 21, 2020 | Judgment | Whether there is sufficient evidence to bar the election officials from participating in elections or election administration after they lost ballots. |
| Kosovo |
| Oct 10, 2019 |
Inkatha Freedom Party v. Independent Electoral Commission | Sep 23, 2020 | Judgment | Whether alleged electoral illegalities were sufficient to require an investigation into the election results. |
| South Africa |
| Jul 14, 2001 |
9- Thavaneethan v. Commissioner of Elections | Jul 10, 2019 | Judgment | Vote as a fundamental right |
| Sri Lanka |
| Mar 25, 2003 |
In Re Case No. 9768, 9780 & 9828 | Jul 8, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the elections violated the citizen’s political rights even though the domestic options were exhausted. |
| Mexico |
| May 17, 1990 |
Australian Electoral Commission v. Johnston | Jun 9, 2020 | Judgment |
| Australia |
| Feb 18, 2014 | |
PAN v. PRI (SM JIN 0035 2015) | Aug 7, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the Governor's presence and irregularities are sufficient to annul the election results. |
| Mexico |
| Aug 4, 2017 |
Sandhu v. Election Commission of Pakistan | Jun 30, 2020 | Judgment | Whether a repoll is necessary due to an intervening crime. |
| Pakistan |
| May 31, 2018 |
Khuhro v. Khan | Jun 30, 2020 | Judgment | Whether misstatements on the candidate’s election papers are sufficient to declare an election void. |
| Pakistan |
| Aug 1, 2019 |
The Representation Of The People Act v The Election Petitions Act, etal | Jun 26, 2020 | Judgment | Whether there is sufficient evidence to declare the 1997 elections void? |
| Jamaica |
| May 28, 1998 |
Winnemucca v. United States | Jun 19, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the election of the Council Chairman and the Bureau of Indian Affairs’s nonrecognition of the new government is reviewable by the courts. |
| United States of America |
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