Means of Exercising Judicial Oversight over the Electoral Administration in Iraq: A Comparative Study

Abstract

There is no doubt that the integrity of elections in democratic countries and the neutrality of the authorities supervising the management of elections and their equality among candidates, all this was the result of the subjecting of the elections to effective and influential control by various parties, the most important and effective of which is judicial control, which is practiced by different bodies that combine the capacity or judicial nature from a functional point of view. However, this oversight is practiced at different levels and certainly this issue supports and enshrines the confidence of the national and international community in the integrity of the electoral administration and its immunity from deviation, as long as there are judicial authorities that monitor their performance in managing the electoral process and guide this performance and return it to the right path when it inclines and violates constitutional and legal controls in the implementation of electoral entitlements.