EAdIElection Administration Index
How professionally and independently is election administration codified?
Dimensions
Accountability
50.0% · 1/2| 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% | No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute. | no FTS match 2026-05-23 |
| COI.2Judicial review of administrative decisionsIs the right to seek judicial review of election-authority decisions codified, with standing, timeline, and venue defined? | 1/1100.0% | § 28 of the Referendum Law (and § 20 of the Seimas Election Law) codifies appeals against electoral-committee decisions — to higher-level committees and ultimately to the courts; § 74 codifies complaints against Central Electoral Committee decisions on referendum results. | § view source 2026-05-23 |
Commission
40.0% · 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% | Lithuania's election commissions are established by statute — the Central Electoral Commission Law (§ 1), the Seimas Election Law (§ 12 formation), and the municipal/polling commissions (§ 22-23) — with Article 67 of the Constitution implicitly grounding the CEC. Statute; level 1. “The chairman or a member of a municipal electoral committee, an electoral committee of a polling district may be removed from his office in the committee” | § view source 2026-05-23 |
| 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 matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute. | no FTS match 2026-05-23 |
| COMM.3Term protectionAre commissioner terms defined in statute with fixed length, staggered cycles, and statutory grounds for removal? | 0.5/150.0% | § 7 of the Seimas Election Law (Openness) requires public meeting notices for electoral committees, and the CEC term and removal grounds are codified in the Central Electoral Commission Law (§ 7 formation cycle, § 10 powers); a discrete staggered-term-with-removal-grounds rule is codified piecemeal across the acts. | § view source 2026-05-23 |
| COMM.4Political-balance requirementIs the commission's composition required by statute to be politically balanced (party-balanced, supermajority-confirmation, or independent appointment by judiciary)? | 0.5/150.0% | Lithuania's Central Electoral Commission composition is multi-source — nominees of political parties meeting a threshold, parties with Seimas seats, the Minister of Justice, and the Bar Council — providing de facto political balance; the surfaced section codifies the CEC's funding-monitoring role rather than a specific balance rule. | § view source 2026-05-23 |
Funding
37.5% · 2/4| 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)? | 0.5/150.0% | § 14 of the Funding Law allocates state appropriations for political parties through 'a separate budget programme implemented by the Central Electoral Commission'; the CEC's own administrative budget is set in the annual state budget, not codified as an independent ring-fenced line item. | § view source 2026-05-23 |
| 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: FTS surfaced the EP Law's purpose section; Lithuania does not codify election-infrastructure budgets on a fixed multi-year cycle — annual appropriations apply. | § view source 2026-05-23 |
| FUND.3Foreign funding prohibitionIs foreign-source funding of the election authority (and election administration vendors, where applicable) prohibited by statute? | 1/250.0% | § 28 of the Funding Law treats as a gross violation any financing from sources outside the statutory donor list — § 12 bars foreign-state, foreign-legal-person and anonymous donations; a direct ban on non-enumerated (incl. foreign) funding rather than a separate pass-through clause. “financing of a political party or a political campaign participant not with the funds defined by this Law or the donations of the persons who under this Law do not have the right to make donations” | § view source 2026-05-23 |
Staff Training
0.0% · 0/3| 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 matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute. | no FTS match 2026-05-23 |
| STAFF.2Mandatory trainingIs training for election officials and poll workers required by statute, with content and frequency defined? | 0/10.0% | No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute. | no FTS match 2026-05-23 |
| STAFF.3Whistleblower protectionAre election-related whistleblower protections (for staff reporting irregularities) codified in statute? | 0/10.0% | No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute. | no FTS match 2026-05-23 |
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: Lithuania votes on paper at polling stations with no voting-machine system, so there is no voting-equipment certification process to codify; the surfaced § 3 lists the Central Electoral Commission's general tasks. | § view source 2026-05-23 |
| CERT.2Recertification triggersAre recertification triggers (after material updates, after defects discovered, on a fixed schedule) codified? | 0/10.0% | No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute. | no FTS match 2026-05-23 |
| 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: Lithuania uses no voting-technology vendor, so there is no certification to revoke; § 14 of the Seimas Election Law has the Central Electoral Committee adopt uniform implementing rules. | § view source 2026-05-23 |