Question

State few challenges to free and fair elections

Answer 1

The basic challenges for organizing free and fair elections can be summed up by three initiatives: (1) one person, one vote; (2) a vote cast is a vote counted; (3) voters must be protected from unlawful influences upon their decisions. The set of rules that governs the conduction of elections and referendums and how their results are determined is called an electoral system.

The first goal is to ensure that every person with the right to vote (observing the legal requirements about citizenship, age, criminal convictions etc.) will be allowed to vote, and at the same time will cast only one vote. There are many ways to accomplish this, such as voter registration and some form of control of voter turnout, like collecting one’s signature when casting a ballot. The process of prior registration usually results in some form of voters database, which must be constantly updated with new citizens reaching the voting age, their currently assigned polling station, cancellation of entries for the deceased and so on. The database should be checked periodically to prevent duplication of records, and could be used to print a list of eligible voters for each polling station.

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