A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO INCREASING WOMEN’S ACCESS TO ELECTORAL JUSTICE intraparty dispute resolution processes through the development of model guidelines and principles to guide the resolution of intraparty disputes. The electoral courts should continue to expand the availability of remote filing and remote and virtual court processes and endeavor to make virtual court stations – with computers and reliable internet connections – widely available across the country, prioritizing those farthest from existing court services. The courts should also conduct a gender-sensitive outreach campaign so more people are aware of the stations and to encourage women to file either at a local court or at one of the virtual stations and to provide information on the steps that need to be taken in filing such claims. An online filing platform can also enhance access to justice, as long as it is used as to complement in-person filing. Online filing may also make it easier to ensure the privacy and safety of the person filing, especially important for victims of violence. Finally, additional research and data collection are needed to better understand the number of women who seek to contest for office at all levels, and in all political parties. In addition, there gender-disaggregated data should be collected on the electoral justice cases brought at every level and at every stage of the process, including the nature of the claims brought, the number and gender of complainants who appear pro se (that is, unrepresented by counsel), and the outcomes of those EDR processes. Political parties should be required to report data on the number of cases in which they retain counsel for complainants as well as the number and gender of complainants for which they decline to provide counsel. As noted, this information could also be collected through the new IEBC CMS and a similar system at the courts, provided they are appropriately resourced. 55