Recommendation Problems with the electoral law and other relevant legal norms 1 (Electoral System) Ecuador 2002 —
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Recommendation Problems with the electoral law and other relevant legal norms 1 (Electoral System) Ecuador 2002

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One of the provisions of the electoral law that caused most confusion and resulted in a great number of official complaints is Article 104, which defines the way votes are transformed into seats in electoral districts where only two representatives are elected (...) Nevertheless, the fact that there were so many confusing interpretations of this article suggests that it could be helpful to make the intention of the legislator more explicit, perhaps in the corresponding article of the by-law. It should be made particularly clear how to proceed in situations where the individual candidate who obtains most votes does not belong to the list which obtains the most votes. For these situations, the law should specify how to define what is “the list that follows”.

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