24. A suspension of electoral rights must therefore meet a proportionality test16 to minimise the risk that elections are postponed for partisan political reasons rather than for the objective needs of the situation.17 Several measures against such misuse must be put in place (judicial control, broad involvement of political parties and other stakeholders, time limitation of the postponement, broad agreement on the need of postponement).18 When facing an epidemic, voting modalities like postal voting, mobile ballot boxes and voting by Internet may be taken into account.19