However, international observers have questioned the fairness of Armenia's parliamentary and presidential elections and constitutional referendum since 1995, citing polling deficiencies, lack of cooperation by the Electoral Commission, and poor maintenance of electoral lists and polling places.

He called on the Electoral Commission to investigate the issue of political parties taking out loans from non-commercial sources.

He called on the Electoral Commission to investigate the issue of political parties taking out loans from non-commercial sources.

* In November 2007, it emerged that more than £ 400, 000 had been accepted by the Labour Party from one person through a series of third parties, causing the Electoral Commission to seek an explanation.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

The voting process, though technically difficult due to the lack of infrastructure, was facilitated and organized by the Congolese Independent Electoral Commission with support from the UN mission to the Congo ( MONUC ).

The Independent High Commission for Human Rights, the Independent High Electoral Commission, and the Commission on Integrity are independent commissions subject to monitoring by the Council of Representatives.

Under the Electoral Act 1997 a Constituency Commission is established following the publication of census figures every five years.

Indeed, when the results of the elections do not represent the ethnic proportions of the population, the Best Loser System provides for additional members to be nominated by the Electoral Commission in order to ensure that the Assembly reflects the ethnic proportions of the Mauritian population.

Other parastatals are the responsibility of the Office of the Presidency, such as the Independent National Electoral Commission, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Federal Civil Service Commission.

The party, along with its Northern Ireland wing, voluntarily deregistered with the Electoral Commission at the end of 2003.

* In 1984, the Australian Electoral Commission proclaimed at a redistribution on 14 September 1984, the Division of Menzies for representation in the Australian House of Representatives in honour of the former Prime Minister.

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission for the year ending 2010, the party had a membership of 16232, up from 15, 097 in 2008 and 9, 450 in 2003.

Changes to the Zanzibar Constitution in April 2002 allowed both the CCM and CUF parties to nominate members to the Zanzibar Electoral Commission.

In May 2003, the Zanzibar Electoral Commission conducted by-elections to fill vacant seats in the parliament, including those seats vacated by the CUF boycott.

In March 2009, the Independent Electoral Commission ruled that Winnie Mandela, who was selected as an ANC candidate, could run in the April 2009 general election, despite having a fraud conviction.

However, this will change at the Victorian Local Government Elections in October 2012 following an electoral representation review by the Victorian Electoral Commission in 2011-2012.

The Congress then passed a bill establishing the Electoral Commission, which would determine the winner once and for all.

After northern candidate Alassane Ouattara was declared the victor of the 2010 Ivorian presidential election by the country's Independent Electoral Commission ( CEI ), the President of the Constitutional Council – an ally of Gbagbo – declared the results to be invalid and that Gbagbo was the winner.

In the 1876 – 1877 electoral college crisis, he helped to arrive at the solution of creating the Electoral Commission to settle the controversy, and ultimately served as one of the members of the commission, as one of the five Senators ( one of the two Senate Democrats, and one of the seven Democrats altogether ).

During his time as a senator, he was also a member of the Electoral Commission that decided the 1876 Presidential election in favor of Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.

However, low membership and voter support in Germany's western states continued to plague the party on the federal level until it formed an electoral alliance in July 2005 with the Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ), a leftist faction of dissident Social Democrats and trade unionists, with the merged list being called the Left Party.

On 1 June the ALP State Electoral Council condemned Ngo and Lalich, stating that if they continued to breach ALP policy regarding China, they would both be expelled.

The Electoral Code remains in full force today, and has been a guarantee to the Nation's continued democratic elections.

Ashe continued to remain active in politics after his term as governor, serving as a member of the United States Electoral College in 1804, when his fellow Democrat-Republican, Thomas Jefferson, was reelected over Federalist Charles C. Pinckney.

After 1987, although retired as an MP, Wainwright continued to be politically active, working for the Electoral Reform Society, as well as being a founding member of the executive committee of Charter 88.

It has continued to be updated, under the title British Electoral Facts.

A letter from the Electoral Commission to Linda Smith on 23 January 2008, set out its position on the split, following confusion on the matter from both sides.

Residents on the western side of Dulwich Hill are in the Electoral district of Canterbury, held by Linda Burney, also an ALP member, and currently Minister for Fair Trading.

* Angela Smith: Electoral history and profile The Guardian

Smith became the Presidential Elector in the Electoral College for Maryland in 1789, then a member of state's senate from 1793 to 1795, and finally a member of Maryland's house of delegates from 1796 to 1800.

The Division of Kingsford Smith is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales.

A fresh election ordered by the Court of Disputed Returns after it was found that the Chief Electoral Officer drew a name from the hat rather than caste the deciding vote.

; Suffrage: Citizens aged 18 years or older ; only two adult citizens in Barbados cannot vote ; the Chief Electoral Officer, and the Deputy Chief Electoral Officer ; the Governor-General is eligible to vote, but abstains due to constitutional convention.

On January 9, 2004, a group claiming to be loyal to the Progressive Conservative Party and opposed to the merger, which they characterized as an Alliance takeover, filed application with the Chief Electoral Officer to register a party called the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

The signature of the Registered Officer of a party registered under the Electoral Act is required for a party-endorsed candidate.

The House of Commons of Canada appoints the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada to head the agency.

The Chief Electoral Officer in turn appoints the Commissioner of Canada Elections, who ensures that the Canada Elections Act is enforced ; and the Broadcasting Arbitrator, who allocates paid and free broadcasting time during electoral events.

The Chief Electoral Officer is seconded by the Deputy Chief Electoral Officer and Chief Legal Counsel and a staff of some 330 representing five executive directorates.

* Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec

The final results of the election become official when confirmed by the Chief Electoral Officer.

One device, the Voting Unit is used by the Voter, and another device called the Control Unit is operated by the Electoral Officer.

* October 31-In Sauvé v. Canada ( Chief Electoral Officer ), the Supreme Court rules that all prisoners have the right to vote under Section Three of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, regardless of the stipulation in the Canada Elections Act that prisoners serving sentences of two years or more may not vote

* Chief Electoral Officer ( Canada )

* Colonel Oliver Mowat Biggar ( 1876 – 1948 ), lawyer, soldier ( Judge Advocate General for Canada ) and Public Servant ( delegate, and chief legal adviser to the Paris Peace Conferences in 1919 ) and Canada's First Chief Electoral Officer

On 17 June 1996, the Chief Electoral Officer of Alberta, cancelled the registration of the Confederation of Regions Party of Alberta and the party was struck from the Register of Alberta Political Parties because the party failed to comply with the registration requirements of the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act.

As the Chief Electoral Officer did not have the authority to resolve such issues, he referred the participants in the dispute to the courts.

He was the Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada, before he stepped down in December 2006.

Kingsley was named Chief Electoral Officer in February 1990 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

His successor as Chief Electoral Officer is Marc Mayrand.