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Odhiambo Oduol v. Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether petitioner’s affidavit verifying a video recording meets the evidentiary burden outlined in Section 107 of the Evidence Act relating to electronic evidence.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Country
- Kenya
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 5, 2013
Judgment
State of Washington v. Facebook, Inc.
- Question Presented
- Whether Facebook violated election law by not maintaining records of their political advertising and failing to make those records available to the public.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Social Media
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 8, 2018
Judgment
Samuel v. Chief Electoral Officer et al.
- Question Presented
- (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?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Marshall Islands
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Aug 31, 2018
Judgment
Decision 701/2020
- Question Presented
- 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.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Civil Procedure
- Country
- Romania
- Language of Decision
- Romanian
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Aug 17, 2020
Judgment
King v. Whitmer
- Question Presented
- 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.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Frivolous Litigation
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Aug 25, 2021
Judgment
In the Matter of Rudolph W. Giuliani, an Attorney (United States)
- Question Presented
- 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?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 24, 2021
Judgment
Ochieng' v. Orange Democratic Movement
- Question Presented
- 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?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Country
- Kenya
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- May 14, 2017
Judgment
Sabha Primary Court Case #8
- Question Presented
- Should elections be annulled when multiple irregularities occurred related to polling date announcements, voters lists, infrastructure, coercion, and vote-buying?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Electoral Violence and Intimidation
- Country
- Libya
- Language of Decision
- Arabic
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Apr 27, 2019
Judgment
Domingo v. Commission on Elections
- Question Presented
- Whether there was sufficient evidence to conclude that the incumbent mayor prodded potential Board of Election Inspectors for the City?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Electoral Integrity
- EMB Independence
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Phillippines
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Dec 1, 1998
Judgment
Western Native Voice v. Stapleton
- Question Presented
- Whether the Ballot Interference Prevention Act violates the Plaintiff’s right to vote, right to free speech, right to association, and due process.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Indigenous Persons
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Sep 25, 2020
Judgment
Trump for President, Inc. v. Boockvar
- Question Presented
- 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).
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Disputing Results
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Nov 21, 2020
Judgment
Curling v. Raffensperger
- Question Presented
- Whether Georgia's electronic voting system diminishes the voter's First and Fourteenth Amendment right due to threats of inadequacy and inaccuracy.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electronic Voting
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Aug 15, 2019
Judgment
US v. Philadelphia
- Question Presented
- Did the city of Philadelphia's polling sites comply with the ADA and other guidelines to ensure accessible polling places?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Accessibility
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Apr 16, 2009
Judgment
Goodface v. Lower Brule Sioux Tribe 2020 Election Board
- Question Presented
- Whether a Federal Court may hear a Tribal candidate eligibility claim under the federal question doctrine?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Civil Procedure
- Indigenous Persons
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Aug 25, 2020
Judgment
Decision 378/2020
- Question Presented
- 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.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Country
- Romania
- Language of Decision
- Romanian
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Oct 26, 2020
Judgment
O’Rourke v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc
- Question Presented
- Whether to impose sanctions on the Plaintiff's attorneys for filing frivolous litigation.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Frivolous Litigation
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Trial Court
- Date of decision
- Aug 3, 2021
Judgment
Benisek v. Lamone
- Question Presented
- Whether the District Court abused its discretion in denying the plaintiff's request for a preliminary injunction? Whether the congressional map, operating for six years, was an injury redressible by the court?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Disputing Results
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 18, 2018
Judgment
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe v. ZANU-PF
- Question Presented
- Should an interdict be ordered against the respondents for several coercion related activities towards children in schools?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Violence and Intimidation
- Country
- Zimbabwe
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Jun 28, 2018
Judgment
SUP RAP 726 2017
- Question Presented
- Political parties and coalitions must register indigenous peoples´ representatives as candidates in at least 13 electoral districts
- Legal Issue(s)
- Quotas
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Dec 14, 2017
Judgment
2- Karunathilaka v. Commissioner of Elections
- Question Presented
- People's sovereignty
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Dec 7, 1998
Judgment
Thompson v. Hebdon
- Question Presented
- Whether Alaska's $500 contribution limit violates the Fourteenth Amendment
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Nov 25, 2019
Judgment
Mutharika v. Chilima
- Question Presented
- Whether the standard that candidate must receive a majority of the votes means the highest percentage of votes or over 50%?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Voting Systems (Winner-take-all, proportional, etc.)
- Country
- Malawi
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- May 8, 2020
Judgment
National Elections Commission v. Brumskine
- Question Presented
- Should elections be annulled when there were late openings of polls, changes of polling stations, inaccurate voter registration lists, and an absence of queue controllers?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Voter Registration
- Country
- Liberia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Dec 7, 2017
Judgment
1- Gamaethige v. Attorney General
- Question Presented
- Determination on 20th amendment and people's sovereignty
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Sep 8, 2017
Judgment
Wisconsin Legislature v. Evers (state Supreme Court Decision, please see United States Supreme Court order on the application for stay)
- Question Presented
- Whether the Governor may suspend election laws two days before the election?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Accessibility
- Electoral Integrity
- Health Concerns & Election Administration
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Apr 6, 2020
Judgment
Bush v. Gore
- Question Presented
- Did the Florida Supreme Court violate Article II Section 1 Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution by making new election law? Do standardless manual recounts violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Constitution?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Dec 12, 2000
Judgment
14- Attorney General v. Chief Justice
- Question Presented
- Did the Court of Appeal have the power to issue a writ of certiorari with respect to Parliament in the process of impeaching the Chief Justice, who was accused of financial impropriety?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Abuse of State Resources (ASR)
- Civil Procedure
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Feb 21, 2014
Judgment
Odinga v. IEBC
- Question Presented
- Which party has the burden of proof to contest an election?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Kenya
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Sep 1, 2017
Judgment
Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
- Question Presented
- 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.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- May 23, 2024
Judgment
Odinga, et. al v. Ruto
- Question Presented
- 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?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Electoral Integrity
- Electronic Voting
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Kenya
- Language of Decision
- English
- Court
- Supreme Court
- Date of decision
- Sep 5, 2022
Judgment