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June 2020
Salima v Electoral Commission and Another (Election Petition 19 of 2019) [2020] MWHC 201 (22 June 2020)
Whether widespread polling-station irregularities and the Electoral Commission's failure to remedy them invalidated the election result.
  • Election law — Parliamentary and Presidential Elections Act — polling-station irregularities (undue assistance, candidate proximity, threats, police involvement) — unsigned or altered tally sheets — statutory requirement to sign Form 66 (s.93(1)(b)) — complaints-handling obligations of the Electoral Commission (ss.97, 98, 113) — failure to remedy and breach of constitutional duty (s.76) — annulment and order for fresh election.
22 June 2020