Supreme Court of Victoria, Richards J, 14 October 2020. Whether a proposed payment from one political party to another, in line with a previous coalition agreement, was a political donation or gift under the Electoral Act 2002 (Vic).
On 27-29 October 1994, the first multi-party general elections took place in Mozambique. In terms of the Electoral Law No. 4/93 of 28 December 1993, the National Elections Commission (CNE) was tasked with organizing, directing, coordinating, executing and conducting the registration of voters and all other activities relating to the electoral process. This report describes and analyses the work of the CNE over a period of almost fifteen months and includes conclusions and suggestions on the main issues raised. (DÜI-Hff)
In most of developing countries such as Ghana electioneering process normally results in election fraud such as double registration and other forms of election drawbacks during registration of voters and casting of votes by eligible voters. In the just ended Ghanaian election, electronic biometric registration and verification system was introduced during the registration and verification of voters. It was observed on the elections day that some of the genuine registered voters were not recognised by the biometric machine. However, the CI 75 which is the document that gives the rules and regulations pertaining to the Ghana elections indicated that no verification by biometric machine of a voter no vote from the voter. This means that before a voter could be allowed to cast his / her vote the biometric machine was supposed to recognize him/her first. Surprisingly, some of the eligible voters were disfranchised from voting which is against the constitutional rights of every Ghanaian who had reached the age of eighteen at the time of the registration of voters. Furthermore, some citizens that are physically challenged with no fingers were also denied the opportunities of exercising their franchise because the system used for the registration made use of fingerprint only. A Multi-scan biometric system is proposed to assist citizens that are physically challenged to cast their votes as well as to eradicate the problem of eligible registered voters disfranchised by the current biometric system. This paper proposes a multi scan system that allows citizens to use different parts of their bodies to go through the registration and verification process instead of their fingerprints alone as in the case of Ghana electioneering process. The introduction of this proposed system for general elections is expected to create room for full participation of all eligible voters, eliminate multiple voting and also increase the confidence of the people in Ghana in the electioneering process.
In: Jonathan Crowe, 'The Narrative Model of Constitutional Implications: A Defence of Roach v Electoral Commissioner' (2019) 42 University of New South Wales Law Journal, Volume 42(1)
Abstract This research was motivated by the problem faced of KPU Kerinci regency in carried out their duties and authority. It was characterized by the lack of neutrality of the committee organizer the implementation of the sub-district (PPK) and the voting committee (PPS), the lack of enthusiasm in the society and the number of people who choosw not registered in the voters list (DPT). This research aims: 1) To describe the socialization given by KPU Kerinci regency in the implementation of local election. 2) To describe the action taken by the KPU Kerinci regency in order the regent and vice-regent candidate act accordance with the rule that have been socialized. 3) To describe how to the sanction given by the Kerinci regency to candidate who violate the rule. This research was descriptive qualitative. The instruments used were interview, questionnaire and documentation. These result indicate that 83% of people stated that the Kerinci regency has been implement the socialization maximally. The action taken by the KPU Kerinci regency to candidate regent and vice-regent to act according to the rule was provide socialization to a pair of candidates on election rules. The sanction given by the KPU Kerinci regency in observed the regent candidate pairs and representative who violate the rule given in the form of administrative sanction.Keywords: Authority, KPU, Political Participation
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