Kenya’s Continual Failure to Meet their Two-Thirds Gender Quota
Article twenty-seven of the Republic of Kenya’s 2010 Constitution states that the ‘State shall take legislative and other measures to implement the principle that not more than two-thirds of the...
Case C-673/20 EP v Préfet du Gers: The Stripping of the Right to Vote
Image description: the Court of Justice of the European Union Ruling of the CJEU After the request for a preliminary ruling from the French tribunal lodged in 2020, the Court...
Coughlan v Minister for the Cabinet Office: Legitimising Voter ID under the guise of Statutory Interpretation
Image description: A placard with ‘Voting is my superpower’ written on it. In less than a week, the Supreme Court has before them a case that may set the voting...
Proposed Voter ID Reforms in the UK: The Dangers of ‘Fraud’ Based Regulation
The UK government’s Election Bill containing controversial Voter ID provisions is progressing with haste through parliament this month, despite significant alarm over its potential impact. Whilst the government claims the...
A Golden Passport to Crime and Corruption: European Values on Trial
The Law Office of the Republic of Cyprus recently released a final report, just shy of 800 pages and drafted entirely in Greek, of an independent inquiry that was set...
The Great Dissent: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Shelby County v. Holder
Dissents speak to a future age. … [T]he greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that...
Vote, But You Cannot Verify: The Namibian Supreme Court’s Presidential Election Decision
On 5 February 2020, the judgement of Panduleni Itula, concerning the constitutionality of using electronic voting machines without a voter-verified audit trail (paperless EVMs), and thus the validity of the...
The High Court of Malawi Nullifies May 2019 Presidential Election in Landmark Judgment
In a landmark judgment, Saulos Klaus Chilima & Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera v Arthur Peter Mutharika & Electoral Commission, a unanimous bench of the High Court of Malawi nullified the country’s...
Challenge to Electronic Voting Machines in Namibia’s Elections Dismissed by the Electoral Tribunal
On November 27, Namibians will, for the 7th time since independence and multi-party democracy, go to the polls in Presidential and National Assembly elections. This time, Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs)...
US Supreme Court split on the partisan politics of district drawing
At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court waded into the fight over political partisanship in American politics. In a 5-4 decision, the Court held in Rucho v. Common...
Turkish Local Elections: What Does the Delayed Declaration of Election Results Mean?
While nearly three weeks have passed since local elections were held in Turkey on 31st March 2019, the Turkish Supreme Electoral Council has not issued any statement on the election...
Zambia’s police force undermine opposition in Sesheke
Recent reports and video footage of the political unrest in Sesheke’s Parliamentary by-elections have brought to light the disproportionate use of force by Zambia’s police, who opened fire at the...
