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Baytan v. Commission on Elections
- Question Presented
- Whether petitioner's voluntary disclosure and alleged good faith mistake is sufficient to survive a preliminary hearing requiring only probable cause?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Voter Registration
- Country
- Phillippines
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Feb 4, 2003
- Date added
- Sep 23, 2020
Judgment
Chiafalo v. Washington
- Question Presented
- Whether a pledge requirement and sanction violates the Electors Constitutional right to pledge electoral votes regardless of voter preference?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jul 6, 2020
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2020
Judgment
National Elections Commission v. Siebo
- Question Presented
- Whether the respondent lost his right to appeal the Review Panel rejection of his application when he failed to meet the Election Commission’s deadline.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Civil Procedure
- Country
- Liberia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Sep 19, 2017
- Date added
- Sep 16, 2020
Judgment
Rideout v. Gardner
- Question Presented
- Whether a prohibition of a photograph of a completed ballot violates the First Amendment?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Technology
- Country
- United States of America
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Aug 11, 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2020
Judgment
Wendenberg v. Netherlands
- Question Presented
- Whether an electoral bribe must be for the amount promised in order to be a criminal offense.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Criminal Procedure
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Netherlands
- Language of Decision
- Dutch
- Date of decision
- Apr 9, 2019
- Date added
- Jul 24, 2020
Judgment
Hong Kong Police Force v. Electoral Affairs Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether a publicly accessible voter list violates the right to privacy?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Voter Registration
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 5, 2020
- Date added
- Jul 24, 2020
Judgment
Electoral Commission v. Rawali
- Question Presented
- Whether the postponement of the polling day due to inclement weather violated sec. 97, 115, 117, and 206 of Organic Law.
- Legal Issue(s)
- EMB Independence
- EMB Operation
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 20, 2003
- Date added
- Jul 16, 2020
Judgment
Hvit Election Alliance v. Attorney General
- Question Presented
- Whether a discriminatory election alliance member's criminal conviction violates domestic law and the ECHR?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Violence and Intimidation
- Party Registration
- Country
- Norway
- Language of Decision
- Norwegian
- Date of decision
- Nov 28, 1997
- Date added
- Jul 15, 2020
Judgment
In re Valdes
- Question Presented
- Whether a judicial election taking place after a newly election procedure was passed, but initiated before has ground for annulment.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Colombia
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Feb 23, 2017
- Date added
- Jul 13, 2020
Judgment
In re Representation of People Act and the September 7, 2015 Elections.
- Question Presented
- Whether the potential for Chief Justice bias is sufficient to overturn the dismissal of a petition challenging election results.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Civil Procedure
- Electoral Integrity
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Feb 6, 2020
- Date added
- Jul 10, 2020
Judgment
Attorney General v. Taylor
- Question Presented
- Whether the 2010 Electoral Amendment Act is inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act due to the provision disenfranchising prisoners
- Legal Issue(s)
- Judicial Independence
- Voter Registration
- Country
- New Zealand
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Nov 9, 2019
- Date added
- Jul 10, 2020
Judgment
2001 (Gyo Tsu) 82 Judgments of the Supreme Court
- Legal Issue(s)
- Accessibility
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Country
- Japan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Sep 14, 2001
- Date added
- Jun 29, 2020
Judgment
2001 (Gyo Tsu) 233 [Case to Seeking Nullification of the Election]
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Japan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Dec 18, 2001
- Date added
- Jun 29, 2020
Judgment
1999 (Gyo Tsu) 35 [Judgment of the Grant Bench, dismissed by the Supreme Court]
- Question Presented
- Whether the unequal treatment between independent and political party candidates regarding broadcasting during campaigns was unconstitutional.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- Social Media
- Country
- Japan
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 19, 1999
- Date added
- Jun 29, 2020
Judgment
Raatsin for the Declaration of Invalidity of the Voting Results of the Riigikogu Elections of 2011
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Electronic Voting
- Country
- Estonia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Mar 23, 2011
- Date added
- Jun 26, 2020
Judgment
Chester v. Secretary of State for Justice
- Legal Issue(s)
- Judicial Independence
- Voter Registration
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 16, 2013
- Date added
- Jun 23, 2020
Judgment
In re Sixty-two deputies of the Group Popular Parliamentary of Congress
- Question Presented
- Whether Spain's gender quotas violate the Spanish Constitution (art. 3.7, 20.4-7)
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Quotas
- Country
- Spain
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Feb 13, 2009
- Date added
- Jun 9, 2020
Judgment
Union NSW v. New South Wales
- Question Presented
- Whether Election Code s 96D, and 95G6 are inconsistent with the Australia Constitution.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Campaign Finance
- Country
- Australia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Dec 13, 2013
- Date added
- Jun 9, 2020
Judgment
Tanganyika Law Society v. Tanzania
- Question Presented
- Whether the Tanzania regulation prohibiting independent candidates from seeking public office is unconstitutional?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Tanzania. United Republic of
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 14, 2019
- Date added
- Aug 1, 2019
Judgment
APDH v. Cote d'Ivoire
- Question Presented
- Whether the composition of the IEC is in conformity with the Constitution.
- Legal Issue(s)
- EMB Independence
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Ivory Coast
- Language of Decision
- English
- French
- Date of decision
- Nov 18, 2016
- Date added
- Aug 1, 2019
Judgment
Opitz v. Wrzesnewskyj
- Question Presented
- Were irregularities related to voter registration significant enough to annul the elections? Which approach should be followed in determining electoral irregularities?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Integrity
- Country
- Canada
- Language of Decision
- English
- French
- Date of decision
- Oct 25, 2012
- Date added
- Jul 23, 2019
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
- Date of decision
- Feb 21, 2014
- Date added
- Jul 10, 2019
Judgment
13- Nanayakkara v. Choksy (John Keells Case)
- Legal Issue(s)
- Abuse of State Resources (ASR)
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 26, 2008
- Date added
- Jul 10, 2019
Judgment
12- Mendis v. Kumaratunga
- Question Presented
- The Petitioners presented their case on the basis of an infringement pertaining to the acquisition of land on the premise that such land would be utilized to serve a public purpose whereas, by this impugned executive or administrative action the land was knowingly, deliberately and manipulatively sold to a private entrepreneur to serve as an exclusive and private golf resort in Sri Lanka, one carrying a membership fee of Rs. 250,000.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Abuse of State Resources (ASR)
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jul 31, 2008
- Date added
- Jul 10, 2019
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
- Date of decision
- Sep 8, 2017
- Date added
- Jul 10, 2019
Judgment
Bangladesh 16th amendment ruling
- Question Presented
- Does the 16th amendment, which allows the legislature to remove Supreme Court justices on grounds of incapacity or misconduct, violate the Constitution?
- Legal Issue(s)
- EMB Independence
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jul 3, 2017
- Date added
- Jul 8, 2019
Judgment
Zimbabwe Election Resource Centre Trust v. Zimbabwe Electoral Commission
- Question Presented
- Whether the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission must furnish voter rolls under the Zimbabwe Constitution.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Vote Verification and Transmission
- Country
- Zimbabwe
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jun 6, 2018
- Date added
- Jul 8, 2019
Judgment
Presidential Petition on Local Government Council Election Act Amendment
- Question Presented
- Is the Local Government Council Election Act Amendment unconstitutional?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electronic Voting
- Country
- Estonia
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Sep 1, 2005
- Date added
- Jun 20, 2019
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