Detailed and binding procedures for the detection and mitigation of fraud should be made available at the beginning of the electoral process so that electoral staff, voters, EU Election Observation Mission to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Page 53 Final Report on the Presidential and Provincial Council Elections, 20 August 2009 observers and agents, are familiar with them and can cooperate in their implementation. Existing fraud detection and mitigation measures should be fully implemented and the IEC should publicise the rules and triggers that would draw attention to suspicious results and would allow for the separation of problematic ballot boxes for further scrutiny. Secrecy surrounding the rules and triggers which the IEC imposed on itself but eventually abandoned contributed considerably to the confusion over suspicious ballot boxes and what appropriate actions should have been taken.