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Section 25.
 

According to the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters,27 all candidates and all voters registered in the constituency concerned by alleged irregularities must be entitled to appeal. A reasonable quorum may be imposed for appeals by voters on the results of elections. Such a restriction has also been accepted by the ECtHR which stated that the right of individual voters to appeal against elections results “may be subject to reasonable limitations in the domestic legal order.”28 The Venice Commission and ODIHR have previously stated that both the preliminary and the final results should be open to challenges, and that it should be clear from the law whether a general or a restricted invalidation mechanism applies, depending upon the fulfillment of special conditions as regards evidentiary matters and the admissibility of complaints and appeals.29