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Title | Date added | Template | Question Presented | Legal Issue(s) | Country | Language of Decision | Date of decision |
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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 | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 | |
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 |
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 |
Ochieng' v. Orange Democratic Movement | Jun 20, 2019 | Judgment | Was the respondent's nomination free, fair, and credible? Should the election be annulled when the respondents locked themselves in a room with the ballot boxes and papers, preventing the petitioner from entering? |
| Kenya |
| May 14, 2017 |
Domingo v. Commission on Elections | Sep 23, 2020 | Judgment | Whether there was sufficient evidence to conclude that the incumbent mayor prodded potential Board of Election Inspectors for the City? |
| Phillippines |
| Dec 1, 1998 |
Uzodinma v. Ihedioha | Jun 2, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the votes administered on incorrect ballots were improperly considered void. Whether the Governor failed to ascertain a majority vote based upon those results. |
| Nigeria |
| Jan 14, 2020 |
6- Egodaweie v. Commissioner of Elections | Jul 10, 2019 | Judgment | Did several electoral irregularities and acts of violence at polling stations fall within the scope of section 46A, compelling the respondent to declare those polls null and void? |
| Sri Lanka |
| Apr 3, 2001 |
In re Gomez | Jul 13, 2020 | Judgment | Whether criminal charges against an elected officeholder are sufficient to revoke the position on a temporary basis? |
| Chile |
| Dec 23, 2008 |
Chaturman Beda vs Election Special Court and others | 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 |
Madhav Prasad Paudel and others vs Office of the PM, Local development Ministry, Election Commission Nepal et. al | 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 |
Surunuddin Dangga & Muchtar Silondae v. General Election Commission of South Konawe | Jul 15, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the Regional General Election Commission (KPU) of South Konawe manipulated the official results “systematically, structurally, and massively” while conducting the vote counting for the regional head election? |
| Indonesia |
| Aug 10, 2010 |
Sabha Primary Court Case #8 | Jun 19, 2019 | Judgment | Should elections be annulled when multiple irregularities occurred related to polling date announcements, voters lists, infrastructure, coercion, and vote-buying? |
| Libya |
| Apr 27, 2019 |
Kham v. Electoral Commission | Jun 20, 2019 | Judgment | Should elections be annulled when the IEC did not provide timely access to voter rolls to the petitioners before elections? |
| South Africa |
| Nov 1, 2015 |
Tchimon v. Issouf | Jul 22, 2019 | Judgment | Whether violence and disturbance against voters at polling centers took place and whether the elected candidate (defendant) was aware/ responsible for these violations? Whether these violations at the polling stations altered the fairness of the polls on election day? |
| Ivory Coast |
| Nov 30, 2018 |
Monroy Hernandez v. Molano Granados | 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 |
Tabar v. Wong | Jul 16, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the petitioner met the evidentiary burden for a electoral bribery claim? |
| Papua New Guinea |
| Jan 18, 2018 |