March 2021
ICCL made a submission to the Department of Housing on the Electoral Reform Bill. We welcome the move to establish an Electoral Commission. With regard to the issue of Political Advertising, ICCL believes that the State must vigorously safeguard the integrity of elections in order to protect democracy and the basic civil liberties that constitute and depend on it. The integrity of elections depends on voters’ freedom to impart and receive information (in other words, freedom of expression) and the State must proactively facilitate that freedom. These freedoms in turn must be considered in proportion and with due regard to individual privacy.