26 out of the 39 countries providing for specific legal provisions on time limits for lodging complaints on potential irregularities during the voting – during early voting, if any, or on election day, provide short time frames, which is welcome. There remain 20 out of 59 countries which do not provide for specific provisions in the electoral law regarding the time limits for lodging such complaints. These steps of any electoral process require prompt decisions which should make corrections possible. This implies short or reasonable time limits for lodging complaints. It is therefore recommended that the law provide for such complaints to be lodged in a short time frame, since the final elections results depend on the time allocated both for lodging and adjudicating such complaints.