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Election Obligations & Standards Database

Criterion

Security personnel played a positive role during the electoral process, providing protection for voters, candidates, and electoral management body personnel without interfering in the process


Election Parts

  • Candidacy and Campaigning
  • Voting Operations
  • Vote Counting and Tabulation
  • Electoral Dispute Resolution

Issues

  • Security of the Person of Candidates, Parties, and Their Supporters
  • Safety, Security, and Electoral Dispute Resolution
  • Safety, Security, and Vote Counting and Tabulation
  • Safety, Security, and Voting Operations
Summaries
  • Everyone has the right to security of the person without arbitrary arrest or detention.
  • Law enforcement should behave in a neutral manner.
  • Voters have a right to security provided by police and security forces in polling stations, but without interference from them.
  • Counting should take place in an atmosphere free from intimidation.
  • Any security-related restrictions of freedoms and the use of force by public security providers must be based in law, necessary, and proportionate to the objective of maintaining public order.
  • Malfeasance, unlawful actions or omissions by public security providers should be promptly investigated and entail appropriate liability set by law.
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Election Obligations & Standards Database

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