voter list, after which the polling board was dissolved, and the voting was repeated at that polling station. This led to an interesting situation – with a record low number of adopted complaints, the elections were annulled and repeated in a total of 234 polling stations and some 203,000 voters respectively. It is important to note here that a new rule was first implemented in this election cycle, under which the REC has a duty to annul and repeat the vote at polling stations from which the polling board minutes were not submitted or where it was impossible to determine the results of the vote96, which led to the cancellation of the vote in as many as 233 polling stations. This change indirectly - and to a limited extent - introduced the possibility of REC acting sua sponte to protect the electoral will of the voters. 4.2.2.2. The process of administration of justice before the Anti-Corruption Agency97 In the first part of the campaign (before the state of emergency was declared), the ACA did not issue any decisions regarding the amended provisions of the Law on financing political activities or the Law on the Anti-Corruption Agency, although public has seen information of reports coming from civil society. There were some indications of the Agency’s decisions through online searches, but there was no publicly available information on the institution’s website (although there is a part dedicated to the 2020 election campaign). In the first part of the campaign (until the introduction of the state of emergency), the Agency only released information on legal provisions and on the beginning of the implementation of the election campaign monitoring methodology. After the election process continued, after 11 May 2020, the Anti-Corruption Agency made decisions by 21 July 2020 regarding a total of 35 reports filed against various candidate lists or individuals. As for the measures of recommendations for removal from public office, this measure was made in four cases during the election campaign, where the Agency found that certain public resources were used to promote political organisations as participants in the elections. The other 31 reports concerned violations of the provisions of the Law on financing political activities in the field of election campaign spending: In 25 cases the Agency issued a decision establishing that there is no basis for deciding on violations of the Law, and warnings were issued in the remaining 6 cases. In most cases where it was found that there was no basis for deciding on the existence of an infringement of any paragraph of Article 23 of the Law on financing of political activities, such a decision was made because these has been found to be broadcasts of news already published on some of the political parties’ official communication channels against whom reports were filed. It was also stated that there were no political party identifiers in the disputed news stories or photographs. Based on everything above, it seems political entities are still able to ‘circumvent’ clear violations of the provisions of the Law on financing political activities in some ways, and that further legislation in this fields is necessary. It 96 97 Article 87 of the Instructions on conducting the elections. CeSID findings: Around the June 2021 elections: http://www.cesid.rs/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Oko-izbora-21.pdf 56