There was disagreement among the lawyers about the wisdom of the court stepping in to draw up a timetable that would deal not only with the requirements of state election law but also the special circumstances of a presidential election.
For example, the judiciary -- the executive branch of our government has not found itself bound by the technical, hypertechnical requirements of the election law.
In January, election officials rejected the effort to create a new Shining Path-linked party, ruling that the group adhered to anti-democratic principles and had failed to meet some technical requirements of the election law.
In a bold example of judicial activism, the Florida Supreme Court has ruled that the technical requirements of state election law are less important than vindicating the will of the voters.
To some extent, the look of the ballot is constrained by the numerous requirements of state election law — especially the requirement that it be "full face," with all the candidates for all the races on a single side of a page.
There are few areas in which one can learn better how inadequate disclosure per se is than the requirements of political election campaigns to list the sources of contributions.
But, the General Assembly can impose local residency requirements for election to local governmental bodies or for election to the Assembly in representation of particular districts.
The Byzantine rules and technical requirements of the city's election laws have long been fodder for ridicule.
The Common Assembly representatives were to be national MPs delegated each year by their Parliaments to the Assembly or directly elected 'by universal suffrage' (article 21), though in practice it was the former, as there was no requirement for elections until the Treaties of Rome and no actual election until 1979, as Rome required agreement in the Council on the electoral system first.
ODIHR by contrast judged it "seriously flawed".In 2011, when Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan was re-elected with an eye-popping 95.55% of the vote, the SCO's observers declared the process "free and open," claiming it met "all requirements of the national legislation and international election standards".
