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Election Obligations & Standards Database

Summary

Voter identification and related procedures should not discriminate on the basis of the enumerated grounds.


Obligations

  • Freedom from Discrimination and Equality Before the Law

Election Parts

  • Voting Operations

Issues

  • Freedom From Discrimination in Voting Operations
  • The Right to Vote, and Voting Operations

Criteria

  • The voting process did not discriminate against anyone on the basis of prohibited grounds
  • Poll workers were adequately trained in the determination of eligible voters

Quotes

  • Where voters are required to prove their eligibility through showing identification papers, documentation constituting valid proof should be outlined in law and should be the same for all voters.
  • 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: ...Voter identification and related procedures that are nondiscriminatory concerning race, color, religion, language, national origin, other status or political or other opinion, that prevent disenfranchisement of eligible voters and avert illegal voting.
EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

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