In order to safeguard and guarantee the integrity of electoral processes as a whole, domestic legislation should grant appeal bodies with the power to cancel elections, partially or fully. The central criterion for cancelling elections, recognised by international standards and primarily by the Code of good practice in electoral matters, is the question of whether irregularities may have affected the outcome of the vote. The Venice Commission affirms that “the appeal body must have authority to annul elections where irregularities may have affected the outcome. It must be possible to annul the entire election or merely the results for one constituency or one polling station. In the event of annulment, a new election must be called in the area concerned.” Cancellation of election results due to minor misconduct which has not affected the outcome could make the electoral process more vulnerable or would lead to mistrust in the judicial remedies or lead to lower interest in cycles of repeat elections, and possibly a lower turnout.