A further method to diminish the risk of “multiple voting” is to mark the voter’s finger with indelible (visible or invisible) ink to indicate the she or he has voted. Though inking voters’ fingers is uncommon in Western European democracies, it is widely used in other regions of the world and in some CoE member states (e.g. Albania, Georgia). If applied, however, it must be ensured that both checking voters for traces of ink and inking voters after they have received a ballot paper are consistently applied. Unfortunately, this was not always the case, for instance in the 2017 parliamentary elections in Albania, according to electoral observers.