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Election Obligations & Standards Database

Summary

Arrangements should be made to hear petitions related to the announcement of results.


Obligations

  • Right to an Effective Remedy

Election Parts

  • Vote Counting and Tabulation

Issues

  • Right to an Effective Remedy and Vote Counting and Tabulation

Criteria

  • The right to challenge the election results was guaranteed by law

Quotes

  • Adequate arrangements shall be made to hear and dispose of all petitions relating to the conduct of elections and announcement of results.
  • The electoral law should provide a mechanism for the invalidation of election results. In both parliamentary and presidential elections, the decision to partially or fully invalidate election results should be assigned to the highest electoral body. This decision should be reviewable by the highest body of the judiciary or the Constitutional Court.
  • Both the preliminary and the final results should be subject to challenges. Therefore the electoral law should differentiate between the procedures, deadlines and time-limits applicable to each phase.
EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

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