In general, the Cost of Registration and Elections (CORE) Project survey indicated that election managers tend to keep expenses within limits anticipated under budgetary premises. Covering cost overruns does not seem to be a major problem regardless of the kind of democracy setting: stable, transitional or post-conflict. In the rare case of unanticipated expenses, electoral authorities have requested and obtained from the government some extra funds whose potential necessity was anticipated in electoral legislation (e.g., Canada, Guatemala, Spain), or the expenses were netted against surpluses within the agency’s approved budget (most often in Canada).
