EDRIElection Dispute Resolution Index

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 68 of the DPRK Socialist Constitution grants citizens a general right to petition and appeal (신소와청원), stating that the state shall handle petitions and appeals fairly according to law. However, the provision does not enumerate specific parties with standing to contest elections, nor does it differentiate between types of complainants (candidates, voters, parties, officials) in the context of electoral disputes. The clause refers broadly to 'citizens' without specifying which citizens may challenge election results, under what circumstances, or what their relationship to the election must be. This fails to meet the EDRI criterion requiring standing categories to be explicitly enumerated in statute. The provision is a general grievance mechanism, not a codified election-contest standing rule.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 65 of the DPRK Socialist Constitution addresses voting eligibility and the right to vote and be elected. It establishes who may and may not participate in elections (citizens aged 18+, excluding those deprived of voting rights by court judgment or those with mental disabilities). The provision contains no language whatsoever concerning election dispute resolution, court jurisdiction, venue for election contests, or procedural mechanisms for contesting elections. It is purely a substantive eligibility rule and does not codify the court of original jurisdiction for election contests as required by the criterion CONT.EDRI.2.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 68 of the DPRK Socialist Constitution provides only a general right to lodge complaints (신소) and petitions (청원) and states that the state shall handle them fairly 'according to law.' The provision does not specify any deadline for filing election contests relative to certification or any other defined event. It merely delegates the procedural details to 'law' without codifying specific temporal requirements in the constitutional text itself. EDRI criterion CONT.EDRI.3 requires a deadline to be 'specified by statute'—either a number of days after certification or after a defined triggering event. This section fails to provide that specificity and does not contain or reference codified election contest filing deadlines.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: The cited constitutional provision (Article 68 of the DPRK Socialist Constitution) addresses the general right to petition and complaint (신소와 청원), stating that citizens may lodge petitions and that the state shall review and handle them fairly according to law. However, this provision: (1) does not address election contests specifically; (2) contains no codified standard of proof; (3) contains no codified rules of evidence or admissibility; (4) delegates the substantive procedural framework to law ("법이 정한 데 따라" — according to law as prescribed), without itself specifying evidentiary standards. The provision is a general constitutional guarantee of access to petition mechanisms, not a codification of election-dispute evidence rules. No EDRI criterion elements (standard of proof, admissibility rules, or evidentiary codification for election contests) are satisfied in this text.