Criterion
Vote counting and tabulation processes protected the right to be elected
Election Parts
Issues
Summaries
- Methods to facilitate voting may include making special provision for members of the military to vote.
- Political party and candidate representatives should be allowed in the polling station to observe polling.
- Universal suffrage requires that the broadest reasonable pool of voters is guaranteed participatory rights.
- Elections must be held by universal suffrage.
- Candidates must be permitted to run either as party candidates or individually.
- Loss of the right to be elected may only be imposed following adjudication by a court.
- Methods to facilitate voting may include electronic voting.
- Limits on those wishing to run for office must be based on objective and reasonable criteria.
- Every citizen has the right to be elected.
- Limits on individuals wishing to run for office may only be based on objective and reasonable criteria, including citizenship.
- Limits on individuals wishing to run for office may only be based on objective and reasonable criteria, including residency.
- Limits on individuals wishing to run for office may only be based on objective and reasonable criteria, including support from a minimum number of citizens.
- Limits on individuals wishing to run for office may only be based on objective and reasonable criteria, including criminal conviction.
- Suspension or exclusion of participatory rights is prohibited except on grounds established by law and which are objective and reasonable.
- Procedures should not create unnecessary technical barriers to participation by otherwise qualified eligible voters.
- Methods to facilitate voting may include mobile voting.
- Methods to facilitate voting may include postal voting.