The draft amendments exclude the use of two important safeguards in electoral precincts that use electronic means – the use of a control sheet in the ballot box and the inking of voters who have cast a ballot. In light of the proposed hybrid nature of the election day process involving both electronic and manual methods depending on the electoral precinct, the elimination of inking as a safeguard against multiple voting across electoral precincts poses risks. In a positive development, interlocutors noted that as a public trust measure, the draft law will be revised to require, at least for a transitional period, manual counts at each polling station in parallel to the electronic count. In this case, it is important that the law explicitly provides that in case of discrepancies between manual and electronic counts, the manual count takes precedence. The Venice Commission and ODIHR recommend that until electronic means are implemented across all electoral precincts and public trust in the new voting technologies has been established, the conventional safeguards remain in effect at electoral precincts using electronic means. In addition, it is paramount that all necessary measures be taken to ensure that there is the same level of secrecy of the vote as is present in the conventional voting process.