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EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

Summary

Counting should take place in an atmosphere free from intimidation.


Obligations

  • Right to Security of the Person

Election Parts

  • Vote Counting and Tabulation

Issues

  • Safety, Security, and Vote Counting and Tabulation

Criteria

  • 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
  • Vote counting took place in an environment free of intimidation

Quotes

  • [States should foster citizen participation in the electoral process by] requiring that political parties permanently refrain from exercising pressure, violence and intimidation on the population, and protecting voters and candidates against such threats. This requires strict compliance with the principle of secrecy of the ballot and application of dissuasive but proportionate sanctions against perpetrators of any of these violations.
  • Counting should not take place in an atmosphere of intimidation.
EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

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