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In everyday practice, the legal institutions of ‘electoral jurisdiction’are often overshadowed by the rules of substantive electoral lawand electoral procedures. The reason for this is that nowadays,because elections are held with the participation of great masses,they are needed only in exceptional cases, and the annulment ofmandates is rare. This was not the case in the historical past: thisparticular jurisdiction – containing legitimization and especiallyverification – has a much richer history than present. The decisionprocess on contested mandates belonged to the scope ofauthority of the kings, later the parliaments, assemblies as a kindof old privilege until the mid-nineteenth century when theintention for reform appeared in the United Kingdom for the firsttime, which finally turned to the relocation of this power fromthe House of Commons to the high courts. It is worth drawingattention to the important statutes enacted during the Victorianera that dealt with electoral matters and which had dramaticallycleaned up the corruption that had existed before. This solutionwas followed later by many states in Europe, mostly in thetwentieth century. The main verification models are presented inthis study: the British, the French and the German types, focusingthe attention to the organizational versions in the last twohundred years and to the legal nature of this special jurisdiction.
