159 posts tagged electoral commission

President Leonel Fernandez has been re-elected in the Dominican Republic as his main opponent concedes defeat."Miguel Vargas Maldonado conceded after early results confirmed exit poll predictions giving the president... read more

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has fixed 27 June as the date on which a much-awaited presidential election run-off will be held between incumbent president Robert Mugabe and his main opposition rival Morgan Tsvangirai f the Movement for Democratic Change, APA learned on Friday.

NZ First has now filed its 2007 donation return, and have declared no donations over $10,000. Why did it take four and a half months to file a zero return? Why did NZ First break the law and refuse to file on time, saying the Leader had to be in the country before they filed, when it is a zero return?

Election Commission Prepared For Himachal’s Hamirpur By-poll - Manisha Nanda Shimla: For the conduct of the poll in the Hamirpur parliamentary segment that stretches across three full districts and partially over another district, the state government has declared May 22 a gazetted holiday.

Yesterday and today have had the Electoral Finance Act occupying the time of the High Court, but with two different lawsuits before two different Judges. I popped into court for some of yesterday to hear counsel for the National Party, the EPMU and the Electoral Commission make their cases over the EPMU’s application to be a third party.

Monkey With Typewriters is pleased to announce that its campaign to have the Electoral Commission disbanded is one step closer. Following the lead of Dr Culllen recently who explained that the Electoral Commission lacks proper understanding of Electoral Law, we advocated that this useless body be totalled, as it evidently is unable to serve the purpose for which it was set up.

Mark Pack has the story on the failure of London Elects to count all the votes for the mayoral election. OK, the numbers are small and made no significant difference, but it raises the question as to what audit checks where built into the process and why they didn't kick in before the result was announced.

The U.S. State Department’s top African affairs expert said Monday Zimbabwe’s presidential runoff must include “massive” international monitoring, and guarantees for the safety of opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai.

A few days back I had written about the challenges of getting EPIC - the voter id card. Subsequently, Election Commission allowed users to vote even without this card, so long as voters could produce an alternate card - like Drivers License, PAN card, Passport, etc.

Serbs flocked to vote at a record pace in parliamentary elections today, with a pro-Western alliance led by President Boris Tadic running neck-and-neck with the nationalist Radical Party. The vote is seen as crucial as it could decide whether the Balkan country heads toward integration with the European Union or returns to isolation.