Sentence examples for electoral conduct from inspiring English sources

Ambassador Christian Strohal, the Austrian diplomat who leads the office, said the proposals appeared to be devised to limit the capacity and influence of objective assessments of the governments' electoral conduct.

12.30pm: Assistant chief constable Gary Cann from the Association of Chief Police Officers, and Tom Hawthon and Tony Stafford from the Electoral Commission are among the witnesses giving evidence to an all-party inquiry into electoral conduct.

He reckons, for instance, that reporting by the Voice of America does more harm inside the country than outside criticism of his censorship.In any case, Mr Zenawi has signed up for a code of electoral conduct and invited foreign election observers in.

The proposals, circulated confidentially last month by Russia at the headquarters in Vienna of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, would also forbid observers to make any public statements about a government's electoral conduct in the days after citizens voted.

Even in the closing stages of his campaign, Mr. Mugabe served notice that he "was prepared to face any of his African Union counterparts disparaging Zimbabwe's electoral conduct because some of their countries had worse" election records, the state-run newspaper The Herald reported Monday.

Last month, Russia circulated a proposal at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to limit the work of the election observers in the former Soviet Union by reducing the size of missions and preventing them from issuing public statements about electoral conduct in the days after the vote.

They point to a study of the electoral roll conducted before the poll which found a worryingly high proportion of false or incomplete addresses, and untraceable or suspicious names—including 156 people registered at the same address.

As well as electoral officials conducting the poll, the army were drafted in to maintain order.

Whether the electoral commission can conduct the referendum smoothly – the country still has difficulty funding democratic exercises – is the burning question.

Meles said the recently signed Electoral Code of Conduct (CoC) was not done for the benefit of political parties, but for the Ethiopian people.

While opposition groups may resort to violence in an attempt to discredit the election, the GoE will enforce the recently enacted Electoral Code of Conduct and its existing election laws without regard to party affiliation.