I also want to thank Mary Kelly, Michael Svetlik and Bill Sweeney for their steadfast support of this project through very long process and Laura Osio for helping shape a manuscript into a document ready to publish as a text. Finally, although already mentioned above, I would like to once again express my gratitude to Erica Shein, Jeremy Hunt, and Typhaine Roblot. They have contributed to this process in many ways, by helping me form abstract ideas into a concrete framework, drafting sections, researching obscure points of law, supporting our authors’ work, editing numerous draft documents and finalizing our manuscript for publication. I can confidently say that GUARDE would not have been published without the input from their creative and astute minds, their tenacity in pushing this process along and their patience in working with a very busy, and sometimes distracted, editor. I hope our work - as presented in this guide - will positively contribute to the debate surrounding the standards that apply to electoral complaint adjudication systems and will help practitioners develop and implement effective and sustainable electoral justice programs. Chad Vickery IFES Director, Europe & Asia v