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Electoral Justice for All: A Practitioner's Guide to Increasing Women's Access to Electoral Justice
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dismissal of candidacy, the nullification of
election results, or jail time.40 Mexico – one of only six countries in the world that has reached gender parity
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Accessibility
- Electoral Inclusion
- Electoral Inclusion
- Language
- English
- Date added
- Oct 1, 2024
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Alternative Dispute Resolution in Elections: Practitioner Brief
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IFES Practitioner Brief on Alternative Dispute Resolution in Elections
Mexico
Mexico is an example of how ADR can make the electoral justice system more
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Language
- English
- Date added
- May 5, 2023
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Advocate Prem Chandra Rai vs Government of Nepal
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vote
is sent to the home country through post. Countries like Canada, Norway,
Mexico, and Switzerland seem to be using this method. The third method
of giving
- 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
- Date added
- Jan 13, 2023
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Election Dispute Resolution Report 2020
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(cases concerning candidate registration), Azerbaijan, Estonia, Latvia, Mexico.
Andorra, Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Ireland, Mexico, Ukraine. In Andorra, concerning disputes related to
candidate
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Legal Frameworks
- Regional Jurisprudence
- Language
- English
- Date added
- Dec 23, 2021
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Election Case Law Analysis Series: Lessons for Regulating Campaigning on Social Media
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the Superior Chamber of the Federal Electoral Tribunal of Mexico in which the Green
Party of Mexico and various famous people, including athletes, musicians, and
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Legal Frameworks
- Language
- English
- Date added
- Dec 22, 2021
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Election Case Law Analysis Series: Lessons on Gender Equality and Women’s Political Participation
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Analyzing litigation from France to Samoa and Kenya to Mexico, this paper explores on the legal questions
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Electoral Inclusion
- Language
- English
- Date added
- Dec 22, 2021
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SUP-REP-16/2016 Y SUP-REP-22/2016 ACUMULADOS
- Question Presented
- Whether the Green Party of Mexico and various famous persons were rightfully sanctioned for alleged campaign violations.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Apr 20, 2016
- Date added
- Oct 26, 2021
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Guidelines for National Political Parties and, where appropriate, Local Political Parties, to prevent, attend, sanction, repair and eradicate political violence against women based on gender
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Electoral Inclusion
- Electoral Inclusion
- Language
- Spanish
- Date added
- Oct 6, 2021
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(Mexico) SUP 2020 REC 102 924628
- Question Presented
- Whether indigenous customs for men to elect political leaders outweigh the principles of non-discrimination, equality and gender parity, as well as the right of "every woman [...] to a life free of violence, both in the public and private spheres" and to "freely and fully exercise their political rights.”
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Indigenous Persons
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Sep 15, 2020
- Date added
- Jul 1, 2021
Judgment
(Mexico) SM JDC 0167 2021
- Question Presented
- Whether it was incorrect that the request for a citizen's trial that he filed in the initial instance was processed as a complaint, considering that this is the ideal way in which a favorable resolution could be obtained that guarantees the inclusion of members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Whether political parties are obligated to have a quota for candidates that identify as LGBTQIA+ to guarantee their inclusion in the political process.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Quotas
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Mar 31, 2021
- Date added
- Jul 1, 2021
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(Mexico) SCM JDC 0412 2021
Procedural history
Plaintiffs appealed to the Mexico City Regional Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial
- Question Presented
- 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.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Quotas
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Apr 3, 2021
- Date added
- Jul 1, 2021
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(Mexico) SX JE 0003 2021
- Question Presented
- Whether there were procedural irregularities in the lower court’s decision based on the timeliness of the complaint and lack of notice by the court. Whether evidence from Facebook and WhatsApp demonstrating gender based political violence were illegally obtained and possess the truth and veracity it asserts.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Gender
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Jan 21, 2021
- Date added
- Jun 23, 2021
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Election Investigations Guidebook
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Electoral Institute, the institutional body in charge of
organizing the elections in Mexico at the federal level and coordinating voting
processes at the sub-national level
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Language
- English
- Date added
- Dec 28, 2020
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Chiafalo v. Washington
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has no connection to elector appointment. See
ante, at 5. For example, New Mexico imposes a legal duty
on its electors: “All presidential electors shall cast
- 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
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ACHPR Tanganyika Law Society v. Tanzania
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decision in the
Inter – American Court of Human Rights Castañeda Gutman v Mexico,
Judgment of 6 August
2008 Series C No 184 to the effect that
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Regional Jurisprudence
- Violation of an International Treaty
- Language
- English
- Date added
- Sep 9, 2020
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PAN v. PRI (SM JIN 0035 2015)
- Question Presented
- Whether the Governor's presence and irregularities are sufficient to annul the election results.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Disputing Results
- Electoral Administration Irregularities
- Electoral Integrity
- Social Media
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Aug 4, 2017
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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MOREA v. Party of Institutional Revolutionary (SUP 2015 REP 544 499367)
- Question Presented
- Whether the dissemination of campaign materials on twitter accounts of candidate and alternate candidates violate the electoral silence laws?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Integrity
- Social Media
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Apr 20, 2016
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Institutional Revolutionary Party v. Miguel Angel Yunes Linares (SUP JRC 0168 2016)
- Question Presented
- Whether Facebook posts that indicate a political position, but do not solicit votes constitute pre-campaign activity.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Apr 25, 2016
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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Institutional Revolutionary Party v. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (SUP RAP 0268 2012)
- Question Presented
- Whether Twitter posts and Youtube videos constitute campaign acts?
- Legal Issue(s)
- Social Media
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- May 24, 2012
- Date added
- Aug 7, 2020
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The Resolution of Election Disputes: Legal Principles That Control Election Challenges
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Alabama (8), Alaska (1), Delaware (1), Hawaii (2),
Nevada (1), New Mexico (2), Vermont (1), and
Wyoming (1). In addition, Connecticut, Maryland,
Michigan
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Language
- English
- Date added
- Jul 22, 2020
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When Are Elections Good Enough? Validating or Annulling Election Results
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Electoral Legislation of Mexico, Opinion No. 680 / 2012 CDL-AD(2013)021,
http://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/default.aspx?pdffile=CDL-AD(2013)021-e.
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While judicial interlocutors in Mexico have told us
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Annulments
- Language
- English
- Date added
- Jul 22, 2020
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Equal Access: How to Include Persons with Disabilities in Elections and Political Processes
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candidates and Mexico City mayoral candidates, with the exception of one
party. Through these discussions ‒ which were the first-ever in Mexico between presidential
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Accessibility
- Language
- English
- Date added
- Jul 22, 2020
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Mediation and Post Election Litigation: A Way Forward
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(1980) (any elector can contest results); N.M. STAT. ANN. §1-14-1 (2004)
(New Mexico statute allows a candidate to contest the results of an election in court)
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Language
- English
- Date added
- Jul 17, 2020
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Human Rights in the Administration of Justice: A Manual on Human Rights for Judges, Prosecutors, and Lawyers
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GAOR, A/54/40 (vol. I), p. 67, para. 350. See also as to Mexico, insofar as there was no independent
body to investigate the substantial
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Election Dispute Resolution
- Language
- English
- Portuguese
- Date added
- Jul 17, 2020
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In Re Case No. 9768, 9780 & 9828
- Question Presented
- Whether the elections violated the citizen’s political rights even though the domestic options were exhausted.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Electoral Integrity
- EMB Independence
- EMB Operation
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- English
- Date of decision
- May 17, 1990
- Date added
- Jul 8, 2020
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Campos v. Ecuador
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Case of
Cabrera García and Montiel Flores v. Mexico, para. 201; Case of Rosendo Cantú et al. v. Mexico. Preliminary
objection, merits, reparations and costs.
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- Judicial Independence
- Regional Jurisprudence
- Language
- English
- Date added
- Jul 7, 2020
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Legal Considerations When Delaying or Adapting Elections
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Justice José Luis Vargas Valdez
Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary of Mexico
Founder of the Global Network on Electoral Justice
International Foundation for Electoral
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- Legal Issue and/or Topic
- COVID-19 (Postponement and Accessibility)
- Election Postponement
- Language
- English
- Ukrainian
- Date added
- Jul 6, 2020
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Tanganyika Law Society v. Tanzania
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the decision in the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights; Castañeda Gutman v Mexico,
Judgment of 6 August 2008 Series C No 184 to the effect that the
- 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
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Mexico SUP JDC 304 2018
- Question Presented
- The High Chamber of the confirmed the validity of the candidacy of two transgender people (muxes in the state of Oaxaca) to occupy public posts reserved for women and revoked the registration of 15 male candidates.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Gender
- Quotas
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Jun 21, 2018
- Date added
- Jul 16, 2019
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SUP RAP 0173 2018
- Question Presented
- The TEPJF instructs the INE to issue a new resolution on the registration of Jaime Heliodoro Rodríguez as an independent candidate to the Presidency of the Republic.
- Legal Issue(s)
- Candidate Registration
- Country
- Mexico
- Language of Decision
- Spanish
- Date of decision
- Apr 9, 2018
- Date added
- Jul 16, 2019
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