Voters and candidates should have standing when they are impacted, for example by biased election results, but also by potential irregularities in voting and counting procedures. It is therefore recommended that countries include on a broader scale in their electoral laws the possibility for voters and candidates to complain against the conduct of election day. In a number of electoral laws, record books allow observers and/or candidate/party proxies to write observations, objections they may have on an aspect of the election day. This does not allow them subsequently to challenge irregularities they may have detected in most of the countries analysed but provides elements for challenges by other electoral stakeholders.