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"The travaux preparatoires of the [International] Covenant [on Civil and Political Rights] indicate that the framers of the instrument saw this requirement as comprising of two broad elements. The first was procedural, and included the guarantees of periodicity, equality and universality of suffrage, and secrecy of the ballot. The second was outcome-oriented and defined genuine elections as those which reflected the free expression of the will of the electors"
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UN (Center for Human Rights): Human Rights and Elections: A Handbook on the Legal, Technical, and Human Rights Aspects of Elections, para. 76Download Document
Human Rights and Elections: A Handbook on the Legal, Technical, and Human Rights Aspects of Elections
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