Access to Justice and Electoral Integrity As other policy papers prepared by the EII, this paper reviews international standards and best practices in which key principles are applied at the crossroads of elections and human rights. It demonstrates the importance of an effective institutional framework that provides legal redress to protect and effectively exercise rights linked to political participation and representation, as well as the remedies and reparations of those violations This paper does not present guidelines on choosing from a given set of mechanisms to implement the rule of law, but rather lays out an analytical compilation of approaches to the topic and how these have been carried out under different institutional frameworks. It aims to highlight the links and dynamics between effective, impartial, independent, timely and enforceable justice and electoral integrity.7 5