Last updated on December 17, 2013

For Implementing Bodies 

• Are the electronic voting and counting technologies in compliance with the constitution and/or electoral legislation?
• Are suggested electronic voting and counting technology solutions in line with international and emerging standards?
• Is the timeline for preparation of voting and counting systems clearly outlined in the legal framework?
• Are requirements included for the testing of voting and counting technologies prior to their use in the elections?
• Is an audit trail legally mandated, and if so, is the nature of the audit mechanism specified and is the type of audit, timeframe and scale of audit clearly identified?
• Have conditions under which audits and recounts are to take place been identified? 
• Are there specifications for dealing with a situation in which the audit produces a different result than by an electronic voting or counting machine?
• Does the legal framework include specifications for how electoral data will be stored, and the timeframe and procedures for deletion of electronic data in accordance with existing data protection legislation?  
• Does the legislation address identification/authentication issues if they are being incorporated into the electronic voting process?

For Oversight Actors

• Are the electronic voting and counting technologies in compliance with the constitution and/or electoral legislation? Are they in line with international and emerging standards?
• Is the appropriate secondary legislation in place to accommodate the implementation of electronic voting and counting and the processes associated with such technologies?
• Are transparency mechanisms included and clearly defined in the legal framework, such that oversight actors have sufficient access to the new processes associated with the technologies?
• During the electoral legal framework reform process, has the election management and/or legislative committee consulted political parties and civil society on the ways in which the legislation needs to be changed? 
• After the legal framework has been revised , have parties and civil society been briefed on the reforms enacted pertaining to election technologies?