The additional main recommendations of the 2021 Opinion, which have not yet been followed and are therefore reiterated in the present Opinion, are the following ones:[70]
that members of lower-level commissions be selected through open and transparent recruitment, based on clear criteria, and not to leave their appointment any more in the hands of representative bodies;
to review the mechanism for organising polling stations for absentee voters;
to reconsider the requirement that after an election, any candidate who did not win a mandate be removed from the candidate list and withdraw their nomination in writing;
to clarify and, if necessary, to review the extension of deadlines for dealing with electoral disputes, in order to ensure their timely settlement;
to extend the right to appeal against the determination of the compensatory list result;
to make the choice between registering to vote for normal seats or the minority seats possible in reasonably short timeframe before election or, preferably, to give to the voters from national minorities the possibility of choice on election day between nationality lists and party lists;
to review the power to issue fines for late return or loss of signature support sheets;
that the timing for destruction of sensitive electoral material be explicitly tied to the finalisation of any legal disputes, to ensure that relevant evidence in ongoing disputes is not destroyed;
to consider revising the constitutional and legislative provisions on the exclusion of the right to vote and to be elected in case of limited mental capacity.
