The procedures for filing election-day related complaints and appeals as regards voting, counting and tabulation of results - throughout Articles 61, 62, 77 and 77 prima 1 - are overly complicated, and ambiguities and inconsistencies exist. There was confusion and varying interpretations of these provisions by complainants and election commissions during the 2008 presidential and parliamentary elections. There were widespread and significant irregularities in the handling of such complaints by the PECs and DECs, with inconsistent practises throughout the country. Some PECs refused to register complaints and some DECs, based on varying interpretations of the law, did not consider complaints directly submitted to them or, in the alternative, did not consider complaints forwarded to them by PECs.[50] Some of the confusion appears to result from Article 61, par. 6, which allows complaints related to counting and tabulation to be submitted to either the PEC or DEC.
