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Definition: Election Commission |
Election CommissionNoun1. A commission delegated to supervise an election. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Mozambique | The National Election Commission was criticized for categorizing these newspapers as private sector media, thereby exempting them from the electoral law's requirement that public media provide fair and balanced treatment of all parties during the electoral campaign. (references) |
Economic History | Cote d'Ivoire | When early polling results showed Gbagbo in the lead--Guei stopped the process (claiming polling fraud), disbanded the election commission, and declared himself the winner. (references) |
Cameroon | Cameroon' s first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held in 1992 followed by municipal elections in 1996 and another round of legislative and presidential elections in 1997. Because the government refused to consider opposition demands for an independent election commission, the three major opposition parties boycotted the October 1977 presidential election, which Biya easily won. (references) | |
Human Rights | Georgia | The Supreme Court acts as a higher appellate court and remains the court of first instance for capital crimes and appeals from the Central Election Commission. (references) |
Burma | In September 2000, lawyers for the NLD began a suit against General Than Shwe and the Chairman of the Election Commission for failing to fulfill commitments made in regard to the transition to democracy. (references) | |
Political Economy | Cote D'ivoire | Guei dismissed the National Election Commission and declared himself the winner. (references) |
Political Rights | Djibouti | There is no independent election commission. (references) |
Belarus | The head of the regime's Central Election Commission also is a woman. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Only the Central Election Commission may prepare and release presidential campaign posters. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Constitution of India has vested in the Election Commission of India the superintendence, direction and control of the entire process for conduct of elections to Parliament and Legislature of every State and to the offices of President and Vice-President of India.
The law which governs all elections in India as mentioned above is the Representation of People Act, 1950.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Election Commission of India."
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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federal election commission | 123 |
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| Language | Translations for "election commission"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | electionay ommissioncay.(various references) | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6C 65 63 74 69 6F 6E      43 6F 6D 6D 69 73 73 69 6F 6E |
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HTML Code (1990) (references)E l e c t i o n   C o m m i s s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006C 0065 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E      0043 006F 006D 006D 0069 0073 0073 0069 006F 006E |
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