Issue
Safety, Security, and Voting Operations
Election Parts
Criteria
- Potential voters were able to vote without intimidation or coercion
- 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 officials were able to maintain order at the polling station
- Safeguards were in place to prevent coercion of voters
Summaries
- Law enforcement should behave in a neutral manner.
- Safeguards should be in place to prevent removal of evidence of how a voter has voted from the polling station.
- Voters are free to vote for any candidate for election, for or against any referendum or proposal, for or against the government, without undue influence or coercion of any kind which may distort or inhibit free expression.
- Voters have a right to security provided by police and security forces in polling stations, but without interference from them.
- Everyone has the right to security of the person without arbitrary arrest or detention.
- Interference with registration, intimidation or coercion of potential voters is prohibited.
- States should ensure that violence does not undermine women's political participation.
- The highest election official at the polling site should have authority to maintain order.