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Electoral Bodies
Timor-Leste
- English…
6. Supervision of voters’ registration and electoral acts shall be incumbent upon an independent organ, the competences, composition, organization and functioning of which shall be established by law. (Sec. 65) - Tetum…
6. Órgaun independente maka sei tau matan ba resenseamentu no eleisaun sira. Lei maka estabelese orgaun ne'e nia kompeténsia, kompozisaun, organizasaun no nia knaar. (Art. 65) - Portuguese…
6. A supervisão do recenseamento e dos actos eleitorais cabe a um órgão independente, cujas competências, composição, organização e funcionamento são fixados por lei. (Art. 65)
Electoral Bodies
Kiribati
- English1. The Electoral Commission shall have general responsibility for, and shall supervise, the registration of electors for the election of members of the Maneaba ni Maungatabu and the conduct of elections of such members and of referenda under this Constitution, and the Commission shall have such other functions relating to such registration, elections and referenda as may be prescribed.
2. The Commission shall have responsibility for the conduct of elections to the office of Beretitenti under the supervision of the Chief Justice.
… (Sec. 63)
Electoral Bodies
Central African Republic
- EnglishA National Authority of Elections [Autorité Nationale des Elections], abbreviated A.N.E.[,] is instituted. (Art. 143)
- FrenchIl est institué une Autorité Nationale des Elections, en abrégé A.N.E. (Art. 143)
Electoral Bodies
Lesotho
- English1. There shall be a Chief Electoral Officer whose office shall be an office in the public service.
2. The functions of the Chief Electoral Officer shall be—
a. to register as electors the citizens of Lesotho who qualify to be registered as such;
b. to compile a general register of electors and constituency registers of electors for the several constituencies and to maintain such register or registers up to date;
c. to conduct elections of members of the National Assembly; and
d. to perform such other functions as may be conferred on him by or under any other law.
… (Sec. 68)
Electoral Bodies
South Africa
- English(1) The following state institutions strengthen constitutional democracy in the Republic:
…
(f) The Electoral Commission.
… (Sec. 181)
Electoral Bodies
Bolivia, Plurinational State of
- EnglishI. The Pluri-National Electoral Organ (Organo Electoral) shall be composed of:
1. The Supreme Electoral Court.
2. The Departmental Electoral Courts.
3. The Electoral Judges.
4. The Juries of the polling places.
5. The Electoral Notaries.
II. The jurisdiction, competency and powers of the Electoral Organ and its different levels are defined in this Constitution and the law. (Art. 205) - SpanishI. El Órgano Electoral Plurinacional está compuesto por:
1. El Tribunal Supremo Electoral.
2. Los Tribunales Electorales Departamentales
3. Los Juzgados Electorales.
4. Los Jurados de las Mesas de sufragio.
5. Los Notarios Electorales
II. La jurisdicción, competencias y atribuciones del Órgano Electoral y de sus diferentes niveles se definen, en esta Constitución y la ley. (Art. 205)
Electoral Bodies
Ecuador
- EnglishThe Electoral Branch of Government shall guarantee the exercise of political rights as expressed by voting, as well as those referring to the political organization of the citizenry.
The Electoral Branch shall be comprised of the National Electoral Council and the Electoral Dispute Settlement Court. Both bodies shall have their seat in Quito and shall have national jurisdiction, administrative, financial, and organizational autonomy, and their own legal status. They shall be governed by the principles of autonomy, independence, publicity, transparency, equity, interculturalism, gender equality, swiftness and rectitude. (Art. 217) - SpanishLa Función Electoral garantizará el ejercicio de los derechos políticos que se expresan a través del sufragio, así como los referentes a la organización política de la ciudadanía.
La Función Electoral estará conformada por el Consejo Nacional Electoral y el Tribunal Contencioso Electoral. Ambos órganos tendrán sede en Quito, jurisdicción nacional, autonomías administrativa, financiera y organizativa, y personalidad jurídica propia. Se regirán por principios de autonomía, independencia, publicidad, transparencia, equidad, interculturalidad, paridad de género, celeridad y probidad. (Art. 217)
Electoral Bodies
Guyana
- EnglishElections shall be independently supervised by the Election Commission in accordance with the provisions of article 162. (Art. 62)
Electoral Bodies
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- English(1) There shall be a Supervisor of Elections whose duty it shall be to exercise general supervision over the registration of voters in elections of Representatives and over the conduct of such elections.
… (Sec. 34)
Electoral Bodies
Myanmar
- EnglishThe duties of the Union Election Commission are as follows :
(a) holding Hluttaw elections;
(b) supervising Hluttaw elections; forming different levels of sub-commissions and supervising thereof;
(c) designating and amending the constituencies;
(d) compiling lists of voters and amending thereof;
(e) postponing elections of the constituencies where free and fair election cannot be held due to natural disaster or due to local security situation;
(f) prescribing rules relating to elections or political parties in accord with the provisions of this Constitution, and procedures, directives, so forth, in accord with the relevant laws;
(g) constituting the election tribunals for trial of disputes relating to election in accord with the law;
(h) performing duties assigned under a law. (Sec. 399) - Burmeseပြည်ထောင်စုရွေးကောက်ပွဲကော်မရှင်၏ တာဝန်များမှာ အောက်ပါအတိုင်းဖြစ်သည် -
(က) လွှတ်တော်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများ ကျင်းပခြင်း၊
(ခ) လွှတ်တော်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများကို ကြီးကြပ်ခြင်း၊ ကော်မရှင်အဖွဲ့ခွဲအဆင့်ဆင့်ကို ဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်းနှင့် ကြီးကြပ်စေခြင်း၊
(ဂ) မဲဆန္ဒနယ်သတ်မှတ်ခြင်းနှင့် ပြင်ဆင်သတ်မှတ်ခြင်း၊
(ဃ) မဲစာရင်းများပြုစုခြင်းနှင့် ပြင်ဆင်ခြင်း၊
(င) သဘာဝဘေးအန္တရာယ်ကြောင့် သော်လည်းကောင်း၊ နယ်မြေ လုံခြုံရေး အခြေအနေ အရသော်လည်းကောင်း လွတ်လပ်ပြီးတရားမျှတသောရွေးကောက်ပွဲ ကျင်းပနိုင်ခြင်း မရှိသည့် မဲဆန္ဒနယ်များ၏ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများကို ရွေ့ဆိုင်ခြင်း၊
(စ) ရွေးကောက်ပွဲဆိုင်ရာ သို့မဟုတ် နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီများဆိုင်ရာ နည်းဥပဒေများကို ဤဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေပါ ပြဌာန်းချက်များနှင့်အညီ လည်းကောင်း၊ လုပ်ထုံးလုပ်နည်းများ၊ ညွန်ကြားချက်စသည်များကို သက်ဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေများ နှင့်အညီ လည်းကောင်း ထုတ်ပြန်ခြင်း၊
(ဆ) ရွေးကောက်ပွဲဆိုင်ရာ အငြင်းပွားမှုများကို စစ်ဆေးနိုင်ရေးအတွက် ဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲခုံအဖွဲ့များ ဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်း၊
(ဇ) ဥပဒေ တစ်ရပ်ရပ်အရ ပေးအပ်သည့် တာဝန်များကို ထမ်းဆောင်ခြင်း။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၉၉)