Procedures and requirements for the use of information technology during electronic voting, counting and tabulation must be accurately reflected in the electoral legislation. Often, important parts can be found in other legislation, such as that relating to data protection. First, the regulation could either be done primarily in the electoral law itself or, alternatively, the legal framework could establish only general rules, leaving the detail to binding regulations issued by the electoral management body. While the latter is advantageous in terms of flexibility, it can give too much scope for election procedures to be adapted to the needs of the technology, instead of the other way round, and to circumvent important safeguards if time becomes scarce due to any delays in the implementation of the new voting technology system. Second, it is important that the electoral legislation explicitly state that the suffrage guarantees applicable to paper-based voting are also applicable to new voting technologies, even though the way of voting is different.