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EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

Summary

Ballot box "stuffing" is prohibited.


Obligations

  • Equal Suffrage

Election Parts

  • Voting Operations

Issues

  • Deterrence of Fraud

Criteria

  • Safeguards were in place to prevent multiple voting and other forms of ballot fraud

Quotes

  • Ensuring that security arrangements exist to ensure that the ballot papers issued to the electors are those actually placed in the ballot box, and that no opportunity for substitution arises.
  • In the event of serious irregularities, such as ballot box stuffing or tampering with results protocols at any level of election administration, observers should bring them promptly to the attention of the LTOs responsible for the respective area of deployment.
EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

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