Guidelines for Reviewing a Legal Framework for Elections
These guidelines are intended to set forth the basic components of a legal framework governing elections, and the minimum standard relevant to each component, that are necessary in order for a country’s legal framework to ensure democratic elections.
They are further intended to provide the examiner of the legal framework with an approach that will contribute to uniformity, reliability, consistency, and accuracy in the review of election related text. These guidelines will also provide guidance to national parliaments when they are drafting or amending election related text.
The views, opinions, conclusions and other information expressed in this document are not given nor necessarily endorsed by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) unless the OSCE is explicitly defined as the Author of this document.