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Paragraph 51
 

It may be concluded that remote voting constitutes a common electoral procedure in a great number of Council of Europe member States. Remote voting in an unsupervised environment has also become common practice in a number of Member States in recentyears. However, only few countries do not restrict the conditions under which unsupervised remote voting is available. In a number of countries it is restricted to votes cast abroad, in some cases even it is explicitly subsidiary to voting in embassies etc. This diversity of constitutional systems in Member States, demonstrates the impossibility of identifying a single form of (non-supervised or supervised) remote voting as the “European rule”. Nonetheless, even non-supervised remote voting is available today in one form or another in half of the countries considered in this analysis. And certain measures exist to promotepersonal and secret suffrage. These constitute a common European standard and are consequently contained in the Venice Commission’s Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters.