Election Commission

  

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Election Commission

Definition: Election Commission

Election Commission

Noun

1. A commission delegated to supervise an election.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Non-Fiction Usage: Election Commission

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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.

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Specialty Definition: Election Commission of India

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Election Commission of India is a constitutional body created to hold free and fair elections in India. It was established on January 25, 1950.

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.

Commissioners

Originally, the commission had only a Chief Election Commissioner. It currently consists of Chief Election Commissioner and two Election Commissioners, for a long time, though, it had only the Chief Election Commissioner.

For the first time, two additional Commissioners were appointed on October 16, 1989 but they had a very short tenure till January 1, 1990. Later on October 1, 1993 two additional Election Commissioners were appointed. The concept of multi-member Commission has been in operation since then, with decision making power by majority vote.

Appointment & Tenure of Commissioners

The President appoints Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners. They have tenure of six years, or up to the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier. They enjoy the same status and receive salary and perks as available to Judges of the Supreme Court of India. The Chief Election Commissioner can be removed from office only through impeachment by Parliament.

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."

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Election Commission

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

federal election commission

123
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Modern Translations: Election Commission

Language Translations for "election commission"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

electionay ommissioncay.(various references)

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Alternative Orthography: Election Commission


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6C 65 63 74 69 6F 6E      43 6F 6D 6D 69 73 73 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101101 01101101 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#108 &#101 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#32 &#67 &#111 &#109 &#109 &#105 &#115 &#115 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006C 0065 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E      0043 006F 006D 006D 0069 0073 0073 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3978716986758180237817979758585758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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