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Election Obligations & Standards Database

Summary

Sufficient voting materials should be available at each polling site.


Obligations

  • Right and Opportunity to Vote

Election Parts

  • Voting Operations

Issues

  • Facilitation of Voting

Criteria

  • Sufficient resources, human and material, were available at each polling station

Quotes

  • The legal framework must address a myriad of issues to ensure a genuine opportunity to exercise the right to vote on the basis of equal and universal suffrage. These issues concern conditions outside the polling sites, as well as inside it, before, during and after voting takes place. The provisions must ensure, among other things, that: ...Polling sites are to receive election personnel, ballots, voting machines and other sensitive electoral materials on an equal basis, and prevent discrimination based on likely political support for certain electoral contestants by the population assigned to the polling site.
  • All necessary election materials (ballot boxes, ballot papers, voter registers, indelible ink, etc) should be distributed to all voting stations on time and in more than sufficient quantities
  • Sufficient quantities of voting materials must be available at each polling place.
EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

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