An EMB’s powers to investigate and prosecute a suspected breach of electoral rules were covered at the start of this chapter. When the electoral dispute relates to the election result, other bodies are often involved. Complaints about the results come first to the EMB in many countries, including Afghanistan, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Costa Rica, East Timor, Lesotho, South Africa and Thailand. Such complaints go to the regular courts in Bangladesh, Botswana, Guyana, Ireland and Sierra Leone, and to the Constitutional Court in Burkina Faso, Germany and Indonesia. The EMB has the final say in disputes over the election result for legislative and other elections in some places including Bolivia, Costa Rica, Sweden and Uruguay, while the final say goes to the regular court in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, East Timor, Ireland, Lesotho and Russia; to the Constitutional Court in Cambodia and Mozambique; and to a specialized electoral court in Mexico and South Africa.
