Recommendation Election Finance, paragraph 1 (Election Administration) Nicaragua 2001
http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/americas/NI/nicaragua-final-report-presidential-and-1/at_download/file
There are several problems with election finance in Nicaragua. One is that, in general, elections are an operation too expansive both for international and in local standards. (…) On the other hand, the electoral authorities have tended to spend money on processes that have made the system unnecessarily complicated. The combination of significant foreign aid flows and incompetent electoral administration has created inefficiencies that should be avoided. The empirical evidence of the 2001 elections points to a conclusion that in many aspects the system might have worked better if less money had been allocated to complicated technical innovations.
