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Paragraph 132
 

In summary, the legislation of most member States of the Venice Commission does not provide for detailed legislation on the decision-making power of the appeal body and leaves a broad decision-making power to courts, in particular regarding the sensitive issue of cancellation of elections. There remains room for improvement in a number of countries where the law does not provide necessarily for the possibility to cancel an entire electoral process, a decision which can be necessary in situations of distortion of election results. This also implies the possibility to modify election results, to order a total or partial recount of the votes. There may be consequently a need to clarify the legislation accordingly concerning the cases of partial or full cancellation of election results and the consequences deriving from such decisions of cancellation. Among the possible consequences, there can be a recount, a repeat voting either with the same candidates or fully reorganised including with a new candidate registration procedure.