Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote. They were also the first general elections run by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. They were the first elections held under a new electoral system. The election was marked by rigging, stuffing, snatching of ballots and electoral fraud. Most candidates were representatives of a political party registered with the Electoral Commission. The movement remains negligible in electoral and political terms. All voting systems face threats of some form of electoral fraud. He argued that this was an unrealistic assumption about political, bureaucratic and electoral behaviour. The Constitutional Council rules on constitutionality of laws and electoral frauds. At-large voting is in contrast to voting by electoral districts. Today they are used chiefly for purposes of local administration and electoral constituency. Candidates in bold were on ballots representing 270 electoral votes. Inequality increased influence by the rich on the regulatory, legislative and electoral processes. Carter won a majority of the popular and electoral vote. There was a sustained campaign of civil resistance against regime violence and electoral fraud.