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Jampen v. State Council
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Switzerland
- Question Presented
- 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.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Electoral Maps and Districting
- Country
- Switzerland
- Language of Decision
- German
- Date of decision
- Mar 20, 1963
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K., B., & S. v. Government Council
Country
Switzerland
- Question Presented
- Whether a voter is deprived of their right to vote if they vote for a candidate that has orally withdrawn from the race, but that withdraw is not recognized by the Governor and the candidate’s name appears on the ballot?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Vote Form Irregularities
- Country
- Switzerland
- Language of Decision
- German
- Date of decision
- Feb 11, 1987
Judgment
Election Dispute Resolution Report 2020
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Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, San Marino, Slovak Republic, Slovenia,
Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
43 Armenia, Brazil, Ireland, Kosovo, Ukraine, Tunisia.
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Sitaropoulos v. Greece
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several established democracies in western
Europe, e.g. Germany, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland ... It was also used, for example, in
Bosnia and Herzegovina and the
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- Election Accessibility
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Grosaru v. Romania
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parliamentary landscape. It may also be useful
to point out that in 2005, Switzerland created the possibility of an appeal to
the Federal Court (while previously
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- Regional Jurisprudence
- Violation of an International Treaty
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Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij v. the Netherlands
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Series A no. 94;
Schuler-Zgraggen v. Switzerland, 24 June 1993, § 67, Series A no. 263;
Burghartz v. Switzerland, 22 February 1994, § 27, Series A
- Question Presented
- Whether religiously affiliated parties can exclude women from running as candidates on the grounds that forcing the party to host women candidates violates its freedom of religious expression, as it believes women are unsuited for public office?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Country
- Netherlands
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jul 10, 2012
Judgment
Lessons on Disinformation and Election Disputes
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constitutes manipulated
information, the Council upheld the law as constitutional.
In Switzerland, the legal framework does not provide for strict
regulations relating to
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- Election Dispute Resolution
- Judicial Independence
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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
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SWEDEN:
POUR LA SUÈDE:
3a
POR SUEOA:
TORSTEN NlLSSON
29 September 1967
FOR SWITZERLAND:
POUR LA SDBSE:
3a
POR SUIZA:
VoL 999,1-14668
1976
United Nations —
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- International Treaty
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In re Magyar Ketfarku Kutya Part v. Hungary
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PÁRT v. HUNGARY JUDGMENT
35
§ 31, Series A no. 298, and Bédat v. Switzerland [GC], no. 56925/08, § 58,
29 March 2016). The MKKP’s conduct falls into
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- French
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Access to Justice and Electoral Integrity: A policy brief of the Electoral Integrity Initiative
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ongoing project visit
elections.kofiannanfoundation.org
P.O.B. 157 | 1211 Geneva 20 | Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 919 7520
Fax: +41 22 919 7529
Email: info@kofiannanfoundation.org
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An Integrated Approach to Election and Conflict
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those programs at the Department of Peace and Conflict
Research at Uppsala University, Switzerland (http://www2.pcr.uu.se/index.htm) and the United States Institute for Peace (USIP). USIP
also
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Advocate Prem Chandra Rai vs Government of Nepal
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to the home country through post. Countries like Canada, Norway,
Mexico, and Switzerland seem to be using this method. The third method
of giving citizens abroad
- Question Presented
- Whether Nepali citizens residing abroad should be given the opportunity to vote from the country in which they currently reside. Whether restricted voting rights on Nepali citizens living abroad violates the constitutional right to vote.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Accessibility
- Elections as a Fundamental Right
- Out of Country Voting
- Country
- Nepal
- Language of Decision
- Nepali
- Date of decision
- Mar 21, 2018
Judgment
Human Rights in the Administration of Justice: A Manual on Human Rights for Judges, Prosecutors, and Lawyers
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practical and effective.”76
The case of S. v. Switzerland
In the case of S. v. Switzerland, the applicant complained of a violation of article
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- Election Dispute Resolution
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- English
- Portuguese
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Electoral Justice: The International IDEA Handbook
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Italy, Latvia and Lithuania but not Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and
Switzerland; or (b) subsequent judicial review of decisions by parliament
on legislative
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Tanase v. Moldova
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other relevant instruments of
international law (for example, Emonet and Others v. Switzerland,
no. 39051/03, § 65, 13 December 2007, and Al-Adsani v. the United
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- Election Accessibility
- Regional Jurisprudence
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Labita v. Italy
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of respect for individual liberty (see, among other
authorities, the W. v. Switzerland judgment of 26 January 1993, Series A
no. 254-A, p. 15, § 30).
It
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Iskra v. Russia
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21132/05, § 72, ECHR 2008 (extracts), and VgT Verein
gegen Tierfabriken v. Switzerland, no. 24699/94, § 75, ECHR 2001-VI).
104. It follows from the constitutional
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- Regional Jurisprudence
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- English
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Equal Access: How to Include Persons with Disabilities in Elections and Political Processes
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International USA
• Stefan Tromel – Executive Director, International Disability Alliance, Switzerland-based
• Yusdiana – Senior Disability Rights Adviser, Indonesia Disabled People’s Association
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Accessibility
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Chester v. Secretary of State for Justice
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least 18 European countries including Denmark,
Finland, Ireland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland have no restrictions on voting by
prisoners. Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary,
- Legal Issue(s)
- Judicial Independence
- Voter Registration
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Oct 16, 2013
Judgment
Gandhi v. Narain
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which had not confronted other
federations like America, Australia, Candada or Switzerland. These problems
had to be solved pragmatically and not by confining
- Question Presented
- Whether legislative acts passed during the appeals process may be retroactively applied to validate an election currently in the courts.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Judicial Independence
- Country
- India
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- Jul 11, 1975
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