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Encyclopaedia   Gender and Elections   PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION THROUGHOUT THE ELECTORAL CYCLE   Gender equality in the voting process  
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EMBs are required to take into account the specific challenges that women may confront in the voting process and to take specific measures to protect against them. To be credible, all registered voters need to have the opportunity to cast their vote in secret, free from intimidation, and to have their vote counted as part of the official electoral result.[1]



[1] UNDP and UN Women (2016): op. cit., p. 73.