EAdIElection Administration Index
How professionally and independently is election administration codified?
Dimensions
Accountability
0.0% · 0/2| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| COI.1Conflict-of-interest disclosureAre commissioners and senior election staff required by statute to disclose financial interests (vendor relationships, party positions, candidate connections) publicly? | 0/10.0% | Constitution Article 51 codifies conflict-of-interest provisions for the President. No specific CEC commissioner financial-disclosure regime FTS-surfaced — Article 35 of Election Code (CEC member status) has incompatibility rules but not surfaced. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| COI.2Judicial review of administrative decisionsIs the right to seek judicial review of election-authority decisions codified, with standing, timeline, and venue defined? | 0/10.0% | No candidate sections returned by FTS. | no FTS match 2026-05-18 |
Commission
30.0% · 2/5| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| COMM.1Statutory grounding of commissionIs the election commission's existence and core mandate set in the constitution (rather than statute alone, regulation, or executive order)? | 1/250.0% | Election Code Article 8 codifies election-commission rules of operation (statute-level). Article 7 (in EAI ADMIN.1 cands) establishes the CEC as an independent administrative body. Constitution Article 66 (referenced but not surfaced) provides constitutional grounding. Statutory level present; constitutional level partial. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| COMM.2Multi-branch appointmentAre commission members appointed by multiple branches (legislature, judiciary, executive) such that no single branch unilaterally controls composition? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Constitution Article 52 (President's powers) — not multi-branch CEC appointment. CEC members appointed by Parliament + parties (Election Code Article 10-13), not multi-branch in the EAdI sense. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| COMM.3Term protectionAre commissioner terms defined in statute with fixed length, staggered cycles, and statutory grounds for removal? | 0.5/150.0% | Constitution Article 60 codifies Constitutional Court 10-year terms. Election Code Article 10 (not surfaced) sets CEC member 5-year staggered terms; Article 29 (in v0 1.1 cands) codifies early-termination grounds. Term protection partially codified in surfaced corpus. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| COMM.4Political-balance requirementIs the commission's composition required by statute to be politically balanced (party-balanced, supermajority-confirmation, or independent appointment by judiciary)? | 0/10.0% | Article 45 (Election campaign) codifies equal rights for parties — not commission political balance. CEC composition (7 parliamentary + 7 party = 15 members) is mixed-party but the surfaced candidates don't directly codify political balance as a structural requirement. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
Funding
0.0% · 0/4| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUND.1Independent funding lineIs the election authority's budget a separate statutory line item (not subject to mid-cycle reallocation by the executive branch alone)? | 0/10.0% | Article 63 codifies ballot-paper printing under CEC decree. Article 53 (in COMM.4 cands) codifies the funding-plan submission procedure: CEC submits plan to Ministry of Finance 55 days before polling. Statutory funding flow exists; whether it's a separate line item with mid-cycle protection isn't directly codified. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| FUND.2Multi-year funding cycleAre election infrastructure budgets set on a multi-year cycle (avoiding annual political renegotiation of election-administration money)? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 28 (PEC/DEC disciplinary measures) — unrelated. Constitution Article 37 — parliamentary elections. No multi-year funding cycle codified. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| FUND.3Foreign funding prohibitionIs foreign-source funding of the election authority (and election administration vendors, where applicable) prohibited by statute? | 0/20.0% | Article 45 codifies campaign-canvassing rules but doesn't specifically address foreign-source funding for election authority/vendors. Article 56-57 (in v0 cands) covers campaign-fund foreign-source rules. Election-authority foreign-funding prohibition not surfaced. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
Staff Training
33.3% · 1/3| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| STAFF.1Career professional staffIs the election authority's career staff (professional employees, not political appointees) protected by civil-service or analogous merit-based statute? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 136 covers candidate incompatibility — not career staff civil-service protection. CEC staff status in Article 16 (in EAI ASSIST.2 cands) is partially codified. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| STAFF.2Mandatory trainingIs training for election officials and poll workers required by statute, with content and frequency defined? | 1/1100.0% | Election Code Article 17 codifies a dedicated Training Center: 'The Center for Electoral System Development, Reform, and Training is a legal entity under public law established on the basis of the Election Code.' This LEPL is responsible for training election officials. Article 14 codifies CEC training oversight. Article 21 codifies DEC training duties. Strong statutory training mandate. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| STAFF.3Whistleblower protectionAre election-related whistleblower protections (for staff reporting irregularities) codified in statute? | 0/10.0% | No candidate sections returned by FTS. | no FTS match 2026-05-18 |
Vendor Oversight
0.0% · 0/3| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| CERT.1Certification process codifiedIs the voting-equipment certification process (criteria, evaluators, timeline, public-comment period) codified in statute or regulation? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Election Code Article 14 codifies CEC powers (ballot oversight, electoral-legislation uniform application). Paper-ballot regime — no voting-equipment certification process exists. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| CERT.2Recertification triggersAre recertification triggers (after material updates, after defects discovered, on a fixed schedule) codified? | 0/10.0% | No candidate sections returned by FTS. | no FTS match 2026-05-18 |
| CERT.3Decertification grounds & procedureAre the grounds for revoking certification, and the procedure for doing so, defined in statute? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 60 (polling time/place) — unrelated to equipment decertification. No equipment regime exists. | § view source 2026-05-18 |