It is not a common practice for the EMB to assume responsibility for parties’ selections of candidates, but the increasing pressure for internal party democratization has caused some election analysts to support this role for the EMB. Many EMBs in the US are involved in running primary elections for party candidates for elected offices. The EMB in the Australian state of Queensland has powers to conduct inquiries and audits of pre-selection or primaries of candidates for state and local elections. In Indonesia, Kenya, and Nigeria, candidates are required by law to submit to the EMB the minutes of the meetings where they were selected as candidates for a particular election.
