EIIElection Integrity Index

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Anayasa Article 39 covers defamation defense — unrelated.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Law 298 Article 47 governs voter-register handover to YSK Voter Register Directorate — not E2E verifiability.

Law 298 Article 78 mandates that watermarked-paper combined ballots are used in presidential, parliamentary, provincial council, municipal council, and mayoral elections. Turkey's primary voting method is hand-marked paper ballots cast into transparent sealable boxes — meeting the voter-verifiable-paper-record criterion. Reinforced by Article 26 of Law 2839 (party ballot preparation per Art 14 of Law 298), Article 18 of Law 2972 (local elections use combined ballots per Law 298), Article 102 (paper-ballot validity).

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Law 2972 Article 25 covers PARTY/CANDIDATE challenges to records leading to re-count — not general citizen re-tally right.

Law 298 Article 77 mandates that the ballot-box committee chair seals the empty ballot box with the committee seal in such a way that it cannot be opened without breaking the seal — a tamper-evident-seal requirement. Reinforced by Article 27 of Law 2839 (sealed/numbered paper packets), Article 68 (clear plastic sealable boxes), Article 46 of Law 2820 (sealed party ballots), Article 19 of Law 2972 (sealed EVET/TERCİH stamps).

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Anayasa Article 174 protects secular-reform laws — unrelated.

Law 298 Article 107 codifies a full chain-of-custody handover: counted ballots, signed tally sheets, all rejected/contested ballots, and the record book go into separately sealed packets, placed in a sealed bag signed by chair and members, transported by the committee chair plus two lot-selected members to the district election board. Reinforced by Article 77 (ballot-box sealing) and Article 68 (sealed transport).

Law 298 Article 164 imposes 5–8 years' imprisonment for anyone who alters or causes alteration of election results, or forges/tampers election records — increased to 5–10 years if committed by board members/officials. Strong tamper-penalty regime. Reinforced by Article 148 (fake voter-register), Article 113 of Law 2820 (party-record tampering 1–3 years), Article 112 of Law 2820 (election manipulation), Article 111 of Law 2820 (refusal-to-provide-information sanctions).

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Law 298 Ek Madde 1 governs YSK voter-education broadcasts, not post-election audit.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Law 298 Article 33 governs voter-register reconstruction — not audit method.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Anayasa Article 73 is tax law — unrelated.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Law 298 Article 108 codifies open/continuous district counting with party-rep attendance — but this is routine counting, not a codified audit process.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Law 2820 Article 74 governs Constitutional Court audit of PARTY FINANCES, not election-result audit binding.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Anayasa Article 168 governs natural resources, not voting-system source code.

No candidate sections returned by FTS.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Law 2820 Article 69 governs party finances — printed receipts for income, not cryptographic binary commitment.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Law 298 Article 77 governs ballot-box sealing procedure at poll opening, not pre-publication of ballot layouts.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Law 2972 Article 2 declares local-election principles + judicial supervision in general — not a software-integrity verification.

Law 298 Article 72 grants party observers (müşahitler), candidates, and independent-candidate observers the right to be present at the ballot box and follow all ballot-box operations. Reinforced by Article 17 (party representation on provincial boards), Article 105 (party reps countersign result records), Article 108 (party-rep presence at district counting). Strong codified domestic-observer regime.

No candidate sections returned by FTS.

Law 2839 Article 35 requires provincial board chair to determine + post results in the district AND keep posted for one week — fast but not a precinct-level 24h-deadline mandate.

Law 298 Article 105 ballot-box result record (tutanak) is signed and provided — but not a public signed append-only event log of the election overall.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Anayasa Article 45 governs agriculture — unrelated.

Law 298 Article 68 publicly specifies ballot-box physical dimensions/material — an open hardware standard for the box, but not for a vote-format/device-protocol (no devices used).

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Anayasa Article 155 Danıştay (Council of State) jurisdiction — unrelated.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Anayasa Article 166 economic planning — unrelated.

Law 298 Article 2 declares 'Vote is given secretly' as a foundational principle. Reinforced by Anayasa Article 67 (constitutional principle of secret ballot + open count), Law 298 Article 76 (closed voting booth specifications: must not be visible from outside), Law 2820 Articles 21, 27, 37 (internal party elections also by secret ballot).

“Oy gizli verilir.”

Law 298 Article 93 codifies an assistance-based accessibility provision: blind, paralyzed, or those with clearly-visible physical disabilities may vote with assistance from a relative who is a voter in that precinct (or any other voter if no relative is present). This is SOME accessibility (limited to assistance, not independent accessible voting). No comprehensive standards for vision-impaired independent voting, no codified motor/language accommodations, no mandate for accessible polling-place design.

Law 298 Article 10 mandates institutional structure: every district gets a board, every ballot-box-area a committee.