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Title: Egy regionlis vlasztsi egyeslet tapasztalatai


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Findings of the 18th ACEEEO annual
conference Judicial Protections of Electoral
Rights 3-5 September 2009, Yerevan, Armenia
Forum for the Future of Democracy, Kyiv, 21-23
October 2009
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1. Findings
  • Beside the EMBs, the courts have a significant
    role in resolving the election disputes
  • Not to compete, but to complement
  • Clear responsibilities clear and coherent
    legislation
  • Guarantee, that the electoral process is correct

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Court levels - Sentences
  • Constitutional court
  • Supreme courts
  • Ordinary (first level) court lack of resource
  • Special electoral court
  • Sentences
  • Socially useful sentences
  • Sentences must be efficient to solver any inter-
    or intra party conflict

4
Court 2
  • Conflict resolution Capacity to revoke
    candidacy to support electoral institutions
  • Judicial attribution is important to resolve
    close election results
  • Courts are not resolving political issues, but
    only jurisdictional.

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2. International standards
  • - Venice Commission of the Council of Europe
    (2002)
  • Guidelines on Elections Code of Good Practice
    in Electoral Matters
  • the only valid international document which deals
    with the judicial protection of electoral rights
  • - ACEEEO annual conference held in Moscow on
    September 26 28, 2002 approved the
  • Draft Convention On Election Standards,
    Electoral Rights and Freedoms
  • that contains recommendations on judicial
    protection of electoral rights

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List of the problems and challanges
  • Timing issues hundreds of complaints should be
    resolved during a short period (1-3-5 days)
    resources, legislation
  • Candidate registration
  • falsification of the signature -
  • insufficent number of signatures
  • unregistered political parties
  • ineligibility of nomination
  • irregular documentation
  • missed deadlines

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List 2
  • Voters registration
  • incomplete voters list information to the
    voters period of time only permanent address
    - ID card
  • Specific persons
  • active voter can choose which address to vote
  • addressess by the municipality
  • Change the addressees

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List 3
  • Election day
  • electoral silence campaign ban
  • inaccurate voters list
  • ballot box stuffing
  • illegal proxy voting
  • missing ballots
  • partisan observers influencing the voters
    in/around the polling station
  • local polling station staff

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List 4
  • counting irreguralities
  • polling station staff
  • voting in the other polling station

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List 5
  • Counting and tabulation
  • wrong metodology (different)
  • auditing process (computers)
  • valid/invalid
  • consillations problems
  • interfering non-authorised persons
  • change of custody (transportation, logistics,
    security)
  • arbitrary appeal process (some polling stations
    excluded from the aggregation
  • transparency of the tabulation

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List 4
  • counting irreguralities
  • polling station staff
  • voting in the other polling station
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