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Title | Date added | Date modified | Template | Question Presented | Legal Issue(s) | Country | Language of Decision | Date of decision | Legal Issue and/or Topic | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Texas Democratic Party v. Abbott | Jun 10, 2020 | Oct 8, 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 | ||
Aryeh Bain v. Chief Electoral Officer | Jun 23, 2020 | Nov 19, 2020 | Judgment | Whether setting election day as a Jewish holiday violates the right to vote? |
| Canada |
| Jun 26, 2019 | ||
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 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 | ||
Tan Chen Bock v. Attorney General | Jul 1, 2020 | Sep 16, 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 | Nov 6, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the Prime Minister had a duty to fill the vacancy in a Group Representation Constituency. |
| Singapore |
| Apr 10, 2019 | ||
Jampen v. State Council | Jul 1, 2020 | Sep 16, 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 | ||
Obradovic v. Bosnia and Herzegovina | Jul 8, 2019 | Sep 16, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the plaintiff's dismissal from the military banned him from participating in the General Election? |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Oct 10, 2003 | ||
Kyewalabye v. Electoral Commission | Jul 24, 2020 | Oct 14, 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 | Oct 14, 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 | Nov 4, 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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
Electoral Commission v. Watson | Jun 19, 2020 | Sep 16, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the video and song Planet Key are considered election advertisements and/or election programs. |
| New Zealand |
| Oct 20, 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 | ||
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 | |||
Seawright v. Board of Elections & In re Hawatmeh v. State Board of Elections | Jul 27, 2020 | Oct 8, 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 | ||
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 | ||
Electoral Commission of Uganda v. Bakireke | Aug 7, 2019 | Oct 14, 2020 | 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 | ||
10- Perera v. Senarathe | Jul 12, 2019 | Sep 16, 2020 | 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 | ||
Quinn Leandro v. Jonas | Jun 20, 2019 | Nov 4, 2020 | Judgment |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
| Oct 27, 2010 | |||
Winnemucca v. United States | Jun 19, 2020 | Oct 15, 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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(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 | ||
Yang v. Kellner | Sep 17, 2020 | 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 | ||
59 Members of Parliament of Ukraine on the constitutionality of the provisions of Art.22.2 of the Parliamentary Elections Law of Ukraine concerning the equal allocation of foreign polling stations to all single-member constituencies | Jun 10, 2020 | Sep 16, 2020 | Judgment |
| Ukraine |
| Apr 4, 2012 | |||
New Nation Movement NPC and Others v President of the Republic of South Africa | Jun 11, 2020 | Sep 15, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the requirement of political party membership for candidate eligibility is constitutional. |
| South Africa |
| Jun 11, 2020 | ||
Décision n° 2015 465 QPC du 24 avril 2015 Conseil constitutionnel | Jul 25, 2019 | Sep 16, 2020 | Judgment |
| France |
| Apr 24, 2015 | |||
Décision n° 2001 445 DC du 19 juin 2001 Conseil constitutionnel | Jul 25, 2019 | Sep 16, 2020 | Judgment | Whether section 33 of the French Institutional Act violates the Constitution. |
| France |
| Jun 19, 2001 | ||
Décision n° 98 407 DC du 14 janvier 1999 Conseil constitutionnel | Jul 25, 2019 | Sep 16, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the Electoral Code provision requiring parity between male and female candidates violates the French Constitution? |
| France |
| Jan 14, 1999 | ||
Impeachment of Roh Moo-hyun | Jun 18, 2020 | Nov 4, 2020 | Judgment | Whether the violations of the electoral code and the Constitution are sufficient to remove the President from office. |
| South Korea |
| May 14, 2004 |