Monitor and sanction reports of campaign violations. NEC should be more forceful to enforce the law, demanding audits from parties, candidates.

NEC needs to educate stakeholders on rights and procedures for filing electoral complaints, provide specialized training to party and candidate agents on mechanisms for filing and resolving complaints.

Strengthen civic and voter education programs, especially in rural areas, schools.

Carry out a fresh boundary delimitation exercise based on the 2008 census.

Int'l community should support efforts to reform Liberia's elections law and constitution by providing technical and legal assistance where necessary, including to elections oversight bodies.

UNMIL's mandate should be extended beyond December 2012.

Ensure that the legal framework and electoral calendar provide for more time and integrate lessons learned from this election.

Take steps to ensure that electoral dispute mechanisms are accessible to all electoral stakeholders.

EMB should conduct a comprehensive and inclusive voter registration update exercise and explain its importance.

Increase voter education and information efforts early and at every stage of the process.

Reduce the maximum number of voters assigned to each polling station and ensure a more equal distribution of voters among polling stations.

Enhance communication between EMB headquarters and regional branch offices.

Publish disaggregated results promptly in order to ensure transparency and public confidence.

Pol. Parties and CSOs should strengthen organizational management: focus on good practices, noninterference, code of conduct.

Supreme Judicial Commission for Elections (SJCE) should assign additional judicial officials to each polling center with the sole task of coordinating, liaising, and supervising security forces in their management of access to polling sites.

SJCE should reinforce instructions to judges about the importance of ballot reconciliation procedures at the end of polling.

SJCE should implement improved logistical plans for orderly movement of ballot boxes from polling stations to counting centers and ensure that presiding judge is able to accompany said boxes.

SJCE should assign additional judicial officials to counting centers with the task of coordinating, leasing, and supervising security forces in their management of access, to ensure the orderly and timely access by authorized people, including judges, party agents, domestic and international witnesses, and others.

SJCE should provide more info to electoral stakeholders on how and when votes from out-of-country voting process are integrated into election results.

SJCE should make concerted efforts to inform and raise the awareness of the complaints procedures among electoral stakeholders.

National Assembly should mandate at least 18 months' worth of time for CENI (DRC EMB) to make electoral preparations in advance of elections.

CENI should avoid unnecessary last minute replacement of crucial staff ahead of elections.

CENI should improve its political party and public communications strategy by holding weekly press conferences.

CENI should ensure observers have appropriate access to all steps of electoral process.

CENI should publish individual polling station results after election to ensure transparency.