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Title | Date added | Template | Question Presented | Legal Issue(s) | Country | Language of Decision | Date of decision | Legal Issue and/or Topic | Language |
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Quinn Leandro v. Jonas | Jun 20, 2019 | Judgment |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
| Oct 27, 2010 | |||
Texas Democratic Party v. Abbott | Jun 10, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a disability under Texas law sufficient to modify the vote-by-mail system. |
| United States of America |
| Jun 4, 2020 | ||
Obradovic v. Bosnia and Herzegovina | Jul 8, 2019 | Judgment | Whether the plaintiff's dismissal from the military banned him from participating in the General Election? |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Oct 10, 2003 | ||
Conseil d'État (CE), 4ème chambre, 31 May 2021, N° 441849 (unpublished in Lebon collection) | Jul 20, 2021 | Judgment | Whether an incumbent mayoral candidate’s advertisement purchased and disseminated on Facebook prior to the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 | ||
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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Electoral Commission v. Watson | Jun 19, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the video and song Planet Key are considered election advertisements and/or election programs. |
| New Zealand |
| Oct 20, 2016 | ||
Kyewalabye v. Electoral Commission | Jul 24, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the plaintiff has the evidentiary burden to contest the election results. |
| Uganda |
| Oct 3, 2016 | ||
Opendi v. Electoral Commission | Jul 24, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the invalidation of seventeen polling station results is sufficient grounds to annul the election results. |
| Uganda |
| Sep 23, 2011 | ||
Mwiru v. Samson | Jul 24, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the respondent’s education failed to meet the requirements for candidacy. If so, whether the respondent’s election as a Member of Parliament should be annulled. |
| Uganda |
| Jun 28, 2011 | ||
Seawright v. Board of Elections & In re Hawatmeh v. State Board of Elections | Jul 27, 2020 | Judgment | Whether late filings during the COVID-9 pandemic constitute unique circumstances that would permit remedy of the fatal defect when otherwise not provide in law. |
| United States of America |
| May 21, 2020 | ||
10- Perera v. Senarathe | Jul 12, 2019 | Judgment | The petitioner, an MP, complained that the respondent, also an MP, has illegally entered into contracts with government institutions and seeks a declaration that the respondent's appointment is void. |
| Sri Lanka |
| Dec 10, 1999 | ||
Jampen v. State Council | Jul 1, 2020 | Judgment | Whether when two distinct constituencies have a single electoral body and drastically different populations, the constituencies must be severed and granted their own electoral bodies. |
| Switzerland |
| Mar 20, 1963 | ||
Tan Chen Bock v. Attorney General | Jul 1, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the reserved election clause solely permits choosing from the terms of office of Presidents elected by the citizens, or also includes those chosen by Parliament. |
| Singapore |
| Aug 23, 2017 | ||
Wong Souk Yee v. Attorney General | Jul 1, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the Prime Minister had a duty to fill the vacancy in a Group Representation Constituency. |
| Singapore |
| Apr 10, 2019 | ||
Electoral Commission of Uganda v. Bakireke | Aug 7, 2019 | Judgment | Was the election conducted legally? Did non-compliance substantially affect the results? Did the winning candidate commit electoral offenses? Did the trial judge err in annulling the elections at the trial level? |
| Uganda |
| Jan 19, 2007 | ||
Yang v. Kellner | Sep 17, 2020 | Judgment | Whether removal of the candidates from the primary ballots after the termination of their campaign violates the voter’s right to elect the candidate of their choosing. |
| United States of America |
| May 5, 2020 | ||
Decision No. 207182 | 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 207183 | 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 | ||
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 | ||
(Mexico) SCM JDC 0412 2021 | Jul 1, 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 | ||
Albayda Judgment – Ali Tarhouni Case II (2016) | 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 | ||
Albayda Judgment - Emergency Procedural Ruling | Oct 19, 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 | |||
Conseil d'État (CE), 6ème chambre, 28 May 2021, N° 445567 (unpublished in Lebon collection) | Jul 20, 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 | ||
In the Matter of Rudolph W. Giuliani | 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 | ||
Human Rights Network of Uganda v. Attorney General | May 20, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the Public Order Management Act of 2013 violates the Uganda Constitution? Whether parliament and the executive may pass legislation in response to decision of the court? |
| Uganda |
| Mar 26, 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 | ||
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 | ||
Ledezma Acosta v. Ausecha Ordóñez and Armando Guevara Bravo | 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 | ||
BVerfG, decision of the Second Senate of December 15, 2020 | 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 | ||
Masumba v. Kamondo | 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 |