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Electoral Bodies
- English(1) The Presidential Elections Committee (called in this Article the Committee) is established and is to perform the functions relating to elections to the office of President conferred on it by this Constitution or any written law relating to such elections.
… (Art. 18)
Electoral Bodies
- English
The elected Members of the Storting shall be furnished with credentials. The Storting decides whether the credentials are valid.
All those who have put up lists in elections to the Storting may appeal against the Storting’s decision. Specific provisions concerning the right of appeal and grounds for appeal shall be laid down by law. The Supreme Court makes the final decision on appeals.
If the Storting, the Supreme Court or the National Electoral Committee declares the election invalid, the elected Members of the Storting will remain in office until a new election has been finally approved. (Art. 64) - Norwegian
De valgte representantene får tildelt fullmakter. Stortinget avgjør om fullmaktene er lovlige.
Alle som har stilt liste ved stortingsvalget, kan klage på Stortingets avgjørelse. Nærmere bestemmelser om klagerett og klagegrunner fastsettes ved lov. Høyesterett avgjør klagene.
Hvis Stortinget, Høyesterett eller riksvalgstyret kjenner valget ugyldig, blir de valgte representantene sittende i vervet inntil et omvalg er endelig godkjent. (§ 64)
Electoral Bodies
- English1. Electoral procedures shall be organised by independent electoral administration bodies whose structure, functions, composition and responsibilities shall be defined by law.
… (Art. 107) - Portuguese1. Os processos eleitorais são organizados por órgãos de administração eleitoral independentes, cuja estrutura, funcionamento, composição e competências são definidos por lei.
… (Art. 107)
Electoral Bodies
- English…
The elections are organized and supervised by an Independent National Electoral Commission.
… (Art. 2) - French…
Les élections sont organisées et supervisées par une Commission électorale nationale indépendante.
… (Art. 2)
Electoral Bodies
- English(1) There shall be an Electoral Commission which shall perform the functions conferred upon it by this Constitution any other law.
(2) Subject to this Constitution the Electoral Commission shall not, in the performance of its functions, be subject to the direction or control of any person or authority. (Art. 115)
Electoral Bodies
- EnglishThe Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has the following functions—
(a) to prepare for, conduct and supervise—
(i) elections to the office of President and to Parliament;
(ii) elections to provincial and metropolitan councils and the governing bodies of local authorities;
(iii) elections of members of the National Council of Chiefs established by section 285; and
(iv) referendums;
and to ensure that those elections and referendums are conducted efficiently, freely, fairly, transparently and in accordance with the law;
(b) to supervise elections of the President of the Senate and the Speaker and to ensure that those elections are conducted efficiently and in accordance with the law;
(c) to register voters;
(d) to compile voters’ rolls and registers;
(e) to ensure the proper custody and maintenance of voters’ rolls and registers;
(f) to delimit constituencies, wards and other electoral boundaries;
(g) to design, print and distribute ballot papers, approve the form of and procure ballot boxes, and establish and operate polling centres;
(h) to conduct and supervise voter education;
(i) to accredit observers of elections and referendums;
(j) to give instructions to persons in the employment of the State or of a local authority for the purpose of ensuring the efficient, free, fair, proper and transparent conduct of any election or referendum; and
(k) to receive and consider complaints from the public and to take such action in regard to the complaints as it considers appropriate. (Sec. 239)
Electoral Bodies
- EnglishThe National Electoral Council is the permanent organ of the State with the fundamental mission of organizing, directing, and supervising the elections, popular consultations, plebiscites, and referendums that are convened.
It handles and responds to the complaints that are lodged with regard to elections and performs the other functions recognized by the Constitution and the laws.
The National Electoral Council guarantees the veracity, transparency, efficiency, publicity, authenticity, and impartiality of the processes of democratic participation. (Art. 211) - SpanishEl Consejo Electoral Nacional es el órgano del Estado que tiene como misión fundamental organizar, dirigir y supervisar las elecciones, consultas populares, plebiscitos y referendos que se convoquen.
Tramita y responde las reclamaciones que en esta materia se establezcan, así como cumple las demás funciones reconocidas en la Constitución y las leyes.
El Consejo Electoral Nacional garantiza la confiabilidad, transparencia, celeridad, publicidad, autenticidad e imparcialidad de los procesos de participación democrática. (Art. 211)
Electoral Bodies
- English
The electoral system has for [its] objective to assure that elections [votaciones] translate the authentic expression, free and spontaneous of the citizenry; and that the ballots are an exact and opportune reflection of the will of the electors expressed in the ballot boxes [urnas] by direct suffrage.
It has [for its] basic functions[:] the planning, the organization and the execution of the electoral processes or [process] of referendum or other popular consultations; the maintenance and the custody of a single register of identification of persons; and the register of the acts that modify civil estate. (Art. 176) - Spanish
El sistema electoral tiene por finalidad asegurar que las votaciones traduzcan la expresión auténtica, libre y espontánea de los ciudadanos; y que los escrutinios sean reflejo exacto y oportuno de la voluntad del elector expresada en las urnas por votación directa.
Tiene por funciones básicas el planeamiento, la organización y la ejecución de los procesos electorales o de referéndum u otras consultas populares; el mantenimiento y la custodia de un registro único de identificación de las personas; y el registro de los actos que modifican el estado civil. (Art. 176)
Electoral Bodies
- English1. Election campaigns shall be conducted under the management of the election commisions at each level within the limit set by law, and equal opportunity shall be guaranteed.
2. Except as otherwise prescribed by law, expenditures for elections shall not be imposed on political parties or candidates. (Art. 116) - Korean①선거운동은 각급 선거관리위원회의 관리하에 법률이 정하는 범위안에서 하되, 균등한 기회가 보장되어야 한다.
②선거에 관한 경비는 법률이 정하는 경우를 제외하고는 정당 또는 후보자에게 부담시킬 수 없다. (제116조)
Electoral Bodies
- English
1. There shall be an Election Commission which shall be responsible for the preparation, maintenance, and periodical updating of electoral rolls, the election schedule, and the supervision, direction, control, and conduct of elections to Parliament and Local Governments, as well as holding of National Referendums, in a free and fair manner.
… (Art. 24) - Dzongkha
༡) བཙག་འཐུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཅིག་ཡོད་དགོ་མི་དེ་ནང་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་དང་ས་གནས་ཀྱི་གཞུང་ཚུ་ནང་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་འོས་འདེམས་ ཚུ་གི་བཙག་འཐུའི་ སྐབས་ རང་མོས་དང་རྣམ་དག་གི་སྒོ་ལས་འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་ནི་ལུ་ བཙག་འཐུ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་བཅའ་སྒྲིག་ ཐོ་ཡིག་རྒྱུན་སྐྱོང་དང་ དུས་ མཚམས་དང་བསྟུན་པའི་ཁ་གསོ་ བཙག་འཐུའི་ལས་འཆར་དང་ བལྟ་སྐྱོང་ བཀོད་ཁྱབ་ དམ་འཛིན་འབད་ནི་ཚུ་གི་ ཁག་འགན་ཡོད།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༢༤༽