{"id":1520,"date":"2022-10-27T21:57:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T21:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomunderlaw.org\/?post_type=case&#038;p=1520"},"modified":"2022-10-27T21:57:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T21:57:45","slug":"ful-supports-opening-of-candidate-registration-for-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"case","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomunderlaw.org\/case\/ful-supports-opening-of-candidate-registration-for-local-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"FUL Supports Opening of Candidate Registration for Local Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomunderlaw.org\/tag\/constitutional-court\/\">Constitution<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomunderlaw.org\/tag\/constitutional-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomunderlaw.org\/tag\/constitutional-court\/\">l Court<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomunderlaw.org\/tag\/electoral-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Electoral Commission<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomunderlaw.org\/tag\/local-government-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Local Government Elections<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Constitutional Court has recently been petitioned to make orders relating to the upcoming municipal elections. The latest application by the Democratic Alliance asks the Constitutional Court to set aside the Electoral Commission\u2019s decision to reopen candidate registration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freedom Under Law maintains in its submissions as amicus curiae (friend of the court) that the Court is being used as a political boxing ring with each party deriding the others as well as the Electoral Commission and attempting to us the Court for its own political ends. This is to be deplored. The Court, as the ultimate guardian of the Constitution, is to be treated with the respect and deference that it deserves rather than as an arena for bald political contestation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FUL also maintains that the Electoral Commission\u2019s decision to reopen candidate registration is lawful&nbsp;and rational.&nbsp;Ordinarily in electoral administration, where candidacy is dependent upon inclusion in the voters\u2019 roll, registration of candidates logically follows after the voters\u2019 roll has been updated, challenged and verified, i.e.\u201cclosed\u201d in electoral jargon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is essentially commonsense. The voters\u2019 roll is the authoritative record of all the enfranchised voters in a particular voting district, and is therefore the authoritative source of reference in determining whether a particular candidate is resident in that voting district. If the voters\u2019 roll is amended, the names of candidates may have been deleted and those of potential candidates may have been added. Names of individuals may also have been moved from one voting district to another, thus\u2014 where a residential qualification is required, as in our local government elections\u2014allowing or disallowing those individuals to stand as candidates in particular voting districts. Registrability of candidates is determined against the latest closed voters\u2019 roll. This means that if you change the roll, you have to reopen candidate registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constitutional Court,\u00a0Electoral Commission,\u00a0Local Government Elections The Constitutional Court has recently been petitioned to make orders relating to the upcoming municipal elections. The latest application by the Democratic Alliance asks the Constitutional Court to set aside the Electoral Commission\u2019s decision to reopen candidate registration. Freedom Under Law maintains in its submissions as amicus curiae (friend of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomunderlaw.org\/case\/ful-supports-opening-of-candidate-registration-for-local-elections\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FUL Supports Opening of Candidate Registration for Local Elections<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1507,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FUL Supports Opening of Candidate Registration for Local Elections - Freedom Under Law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomunderlaw.org\/case\/ful-supports-opening-of-candidate-registration-for-local-elections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FUL Supports Opening of Candidate Registration for Local Elections - Freedom Under Law\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Constitutional Court,\u00a0Electoral Commission,\u00a0Local Government Elections The Constitutional Court has recently been petitioned to make orders relating to the upcoming municipal elections. 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