Election analyst

As the mission's primary contact with the election administration, the election analyst attends all meetings of the central election commission, or equivalent body.

In addition, he or she is responsible for monitoring voter registration, candidate registration, election regulations and procedures, the design and printing of ballot papers, the effectiveness of lower-level election commissions, and other issues within the purview of the election administration.

The election analyst also reviews the counting and tabulation procedures and analyses the production of the final aggregated results for conformity with legal regulations and administrative procedures.

"For me, elections with repeated rounds are particularly difficult. I once worked on a parliamentary election that had voting on four consecutive Sundays.

"The stress of the job accumulates during the run-up to election day, and then it decreases and builds up again just before the next election day," says Riccardo Chelleri, an Italian citizen with more than seven years of elections experience with the ODIHR, the United Nations, and the European Union.