Questions tagged [election-requirements]
Requirements to stand for election. These may include a minimum age, citizenship, residency, or other criteria.
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Doesn't the running a presidential campaign distract an incumbent POTUS from the job?
It seems to me that every US president who spends the last year of his presidency campaigning to be re-elected must have much less time to do the current job.
Has the extent to which it is true ever ...
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Why are there no basic qualifications for a prime minister or any minister post in India?
For any job, there are certain qualifications and requirements the candidate shall furnish, but the same is not true for ministers or politicians.
Why are there no basic qualifications for a prime ...
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If a US citizen were born on US military base abroad, would they be considered as born on US soil and thus eligible to be elected US president?
As we know, the US Constitution provides that only a US citizen born on US soil can be elected US president. How about a hypothetical scenario of a US citizen born on a US military base abroad?
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How is the minimum age of candidacy for the Senate enforced?
According to this US Senate article, it can be enforced by the Senate. Could the Senate just not remove them? Or would that go to the courts? I remember something-or-other about the sovereign right of ...
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Georgia Secretary of State's power to enforce the 14th amendment of the US constitution re. deny Marjorie Taylor Green's right to run for re-election?
In CNN's Attorney grills Marjorie Taylor Greene about her false stolen election remarks at about 03:35 reporter Amara Walker says:
Now the judge is expected to make a decision early next month on ...
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Can a person be elected U.S. President if his birthplace became part of the U.S. after he was born? [duplicate]
The person I have in mind is Barack Obama, who was born in Hawaii in 1961, two years after it became the 50th state in 1959.
Suppose he had been born in 1957 (my birth year) that is, before Hawaii ...
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Why are term limits more lax in the legislature? [closed]
While many democratic countries impose term limits on their heads of government, legislative members usually enjoy much more lax rules, and often there is simply no term limit at all for ...
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Can an extra nomination in the French presidential election prevent a person's candidacy?
In order to be a candidate in a French presidential election, a person must obtain at least 500 "présentations" or "parrainages" from among tens of thousands of elected ...
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Can one run for House and Senate at the same time?
I am wondering about the idea of a senator running for the House of Represenatives because their senate seat is endangered. There are different reasons someone might want to do this. One could be ...
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Why is the minimum age to be U.S. president still fairly high at 35?
According to Presidential eligibility conditions, a President can serve if they are at least 35 years old:
be a natural-born U.S. citizen of the United States;
be at least 35 years old;
be ...
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For how long could UK opposition parties prevent new elections?
The UK government right now is nowhere close to having the majority of seats. They really need new elections, which at the moment IMO are not in the interest of the opposition.
If the government ...
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Can a U.S. Presidental candidate skip or avoid registering for the ballot in any given state?
Can a U.S. presidential candidate successfully run for national office without being on the ballot in one or more states? For example, recently some U.S. states have adopted requirements for ...
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Could a US citizen born through "birth tourism" become President?
A few years back, there was a lot of news coverage of the increase in "birth tourism". Basically, people would come to the US very late in their pregnancy to have children with US citizenship, and ...
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In the US, can a former president run again?
In the US, can a former president run for president again, at a later time?
Does it matter, whether his first presidency was one or two terms?
Note: This is inspired from the TV Series "Designated ...
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Lying in election affidavits
The former education minister of India, Smriti Irani has been caught lying in her previous election affidavits about her educational qualifications. She had at times, claimed to be a Yale graduate, a ...
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