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The Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters emphasises the importance of having a permanent voters’ register,[12] that is regularly up-dated.[13] But, providing that accuracy of the voters’ register is verified “at the domicile of the electors”,[14] the Law on election of governor of Gagauzia opens a legal possibility for the behaviour criticised by the observer mission of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, that the voters’ lists were checked via a “door-to-door” system just before the beginning of the electoral campaign and were thus updated and displayed outside polling stations. As the Congress delegation concluded, this kind of practice with some examples of typewritten and even handwritten lists, made the quality of voters’ register quite poor, which may have led to various types of abuses in the electoral process.[15]