Electoral Security News Today

Ahead of the Presidential runoff polls on November 14, 2023, Accountability Lab (A-Lab) Liberia is beefing up its Civic and Voter Education messages aimed at encouraging citizens to vote peacefully.

A Policy Experts and Associate Professor of Political History at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile Ife, Dr Adetunji Ogunyemi has called on the National

Chairman of the National Election Committee (NEC) Prach Chan has issued instruction regarding cooperation on security, safety and public order to ensure the 7th National Assembly Elections are conducted smoothly and without intimidation, threats or violence.

Political parties and their candidates expected to participate in the February general elections, have signed a peace accord in Nasarawa State, as they pledged to ensure a peaceful conduct of the exercise.

Political parties and their candidates participating in the February 25 and March 11, 2023 general election, have signed a peace accord in Nasarawa State,

Quito, Feb 5 (Prensa Latina) The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador inaugurated the 2023 sectional elections to elect more than five thousand local authorities and to respond to the constitutional referendum called by the government.

“We have been receiving reports of some state governors who encourage political thugs," the IGP said.

One of the major problems that we have had to contend with since the return to civilian rule in 1999, and even long before then in previous electoral cycles and subsequently – 1959, 1979, 1983, 1993, 1999, 2007, 2011, 2015, and 2019 more notably, has been the spectre of electoral violence - in the form of killings, attacks, assault, assassination, affray, before during and after elections.

There are laws in place to check electoral violence, but the political gladiators think that it is business as usual.

In a major development, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has agreed to endorse a bipartisan measure to reform the Electoral Count Act.