Electoral observation plays an important role in ensuring transparency and building trust in elections, particularly when elections are held in a highly politicised environment. Thus, the guarantee of domestic and international observers’ rights in the electoral law has been repeatedly demanded in cases where they are missing. Such provisions might also be adopted in many new or established democracies, such as Andorra, the Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Portugal, San Marino, Sweden and Switzerland, which have no explicit (or only insufficient) regulations on international and domestic electoral observation in their electoral laws (even if they allow for observation).