In the majority of the countries providing in the electoral law for time limits for adjudicating complaints about decisions or actions/inactions taken by election commissions, such limits are short, in line with international standards. Five countries provide for longer time limits for adjudicating this type of complaints. Moreover, 30 out of the 59 countries analysed do not provide for explicit legal provisions for adjudicating such complaints. It may however be necessary to adjudicate certain types of complaints within a particularly short time limit, i.e. within the hours following a decision or action of an election commission, especially on election day: this implies rules to lodge those types of complaints within a very short time frame as well. It is particularly important in some situations that complaints be adjudicated on the very day when the supposed violation is alleged, in order to correct a malpractice that may affect the integrity of the pre-opening, voting or counting operations.