Essential Elements
The study of electoral processes can be divided into eleven similar groups from legal point of view:
- General topics related to the design of electoral systems, to the design of electoral authorities, and to the management of electoral processes. The documents entitled “Electoral System and Electoral Management” deal with such topics.
- All the material activities related to the electoral process’ development, are elaborated under the titles “Electoral Geography”, “Voters’ Registrar”, “Undertaking the election”, and “Counting the votes”.
- The individuals who have a role to play in the electoral process. Such a topic is developed under the titles “Political Parties” and “Candidates”.
- Secondary topics which are not essential to develop an electoral legal framework, but are closely related to electoral processes are developed under the titles “Voters’ Training”, “Elections and Media”, “Elections and technology”, “The election’s integrity”.
- A fundamental topic is related to electoral litigation and the resolution of electoral disputes, all of which are developed under the titles “The System for the Resolution of Electoral Disputes”. Such a system is fundamental because they do provide the election’s results with legitimacy in a definitive way.
Any reform to the legal framework ruling elections has to take into account the conceptual groups previously analyzed. The components of such groups will support the government’s integration and the election of public officials. Such secondary topics not only strengthen but also help out to undertake the elections.
Contributors:
Jesús Orozco, Gabriel Mendoza
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September 08, 2006 11:16
