A voter registration process, being not only expensive but also potentially very political, may be subject to malicious attacks in some circumstances. Being that this paper mainly targets post conflict and emerging democracies, attacks on EMBs are a viable risk. This section deals with the process, policies and procedures related to preparing for ICTs continuation of normal operation after a natural or human-induced disaster. Disaster Recovery Site (DRS) is a duplication of the main IT items on the primary site for use in case of fire, sabotage or disaster. It could be in another building or on a separate premise. The operation will be able to continue using the DRS (secondary site).

A thorough and well-equipped DRS could almost duplicate both the size and the cost of hardware of the primary site. It would also almost double the set-up time. Careful planning should be conducted as to what the purpose of the DRS would be. For example, is it to protect the process, the data or both? If the objective is to protect the process and the data, then enough space should be allocated to the processing workstations too. This should be budgeted from the beginning of the project.