ELECTIONS A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Baku during the presidential election in Azerbaijan, 9 October 2013. (OSCE/Thomas Rymer) and provide a comprehensive assessment of the entire electoral process, including on the voting, counting and tabulation of results on election day. A limited election observation Mission (LEOM) was deployed to one participating State. LEOMs follow electoral processes comprehensively, with a team of experts based in the capital and long-term observers deployed across the country, but do not include short-term election observers and, thus, do not conduct systematic observation of election-day proceedings. Five elections held in 2013 were followed by election assessment missions (EAMs), which are teams of experts that provide targeted assessments of issues identified by NAMs. Such missions are generally deployed in situations where the overall confidence in the integrity of elections and the way they are administered means that long- and shortterm observers are deemed unnecessary. They can also be deployed to participating States where, despite a lack of trust or issues with the overall electoral framework, an EAM is considered to bring the most added value to the electoral process by looking into concrete areas or practices that would benefit from review in light of international standards and good practice. Aspects of another five electoral processes were followed by election expert teams (EETs). Small teams of experts deployed for short periods of time provided assessments of defined sets of issues, such as implementation of newly adopted amendments, campaign finance, the media framework, and complaints and appeals mechanisms. In total, over 2,000 people from 48 participating States and two Partner for Co-operation countries took part in ODIHR election-related activities in 2013. This included observers deployed under the Fund for the Diversification of Election Observation Missions, which is aimed at supporting the participation of observers from participating States that do not regularly second observers. The continuous generous support of this project by OSCE participating States through voluntary extra-budgetary contributions is critical to ODIHR’s ability to ensure geographic diversity on its election observation missions. Currently, the 18 states eligible for the fund are: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ODIHR Annual Report 2013  /   15