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Internal (endogenous or process) factors include 26 election-specific factors divided into seven electoral phases. These are exclusive to the electoral context and are defined in the Electoral Risk Management Tool (International IDEA): Internal Factors Guide (Alihodžić and Asplund 2018). The eighth phase of the electoral cycle, post-election, is not included. Although there is a possibility that violence occurring after the implementation of election results is linked to the elections, the risk factors underlying such violence may not be process-related. Instead, the incident should be examined in the context of structural risk factors.