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The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network is a joint, ongoing partnership effort in information gathering and electronic publishing on the part of many international organizations that believe in the open expression of ideas and a free flow of information are critical to the design and implementation of legitimate, effectively administered democratic elections.

As such, the opinions expressed by members of the Practitioners' Network and materials on this web site do not necessarily reflect those of the ACE partner, associate member or donor organizations.  They have been made available for use in research, teaching, and private study.

The ACE partnership is not responsible for the content of third-party materials made available on the ACE website. The mentioned items are not utilized for profit activities by the ACE Partnership and are uploaded for knowledge dissemination purposes only. Eventual disagreements with this dissemination policy must be timely communicated by the copyright holder by e-mail to the following address: [email protected]