Any disqualifications from standing for election should be subject to an independent and effective appeals procedure.
National Electoral Committee
If you find that your rights have been infringed by an act of an elections manager, you may file a complaint with the National Electoral Committee. The complaint must be prepared in writing and meet the requirements stipulated in the law.
Supreme Court
If you find that an act or a decision of the National Electoral Committee infringes your rights, for example, if the National Electoral Committee adopts a decision not to register you as a candidate or its decision regarding a complaint you made on an act of an elections manager is unsatisfactory, you may also file a complaint or appeal with the Supreme Court pursuant to the procedure prescribed in the Constitutional Review Court Procedure Act.
Police
If you notice signs of a crime or a misdemeanour during the election period, you should report it to the police by calling 112 or submit it in writing. The police process the following offences provided for in the Penal Code, Riigikogu Election Act, Municipal Council Election Act and European Parliament Election Act:
- interference with elections or a referendum, or with determination or announcement of the results
- violation of freedom of election – preventing a person from voting or promising benefits with the intention of persuading the person not to exercise their voting rights or to exercise such rights in a certain way
- falsification at elections – damaging, destruction, elimination, falsification of election or voting documents or incorrect counting of votes
- election fraud – voting more than once, participation in an election without the right to vote or in the name of another person
- violation of confidentiality of voting – illegal examination of the choice made by another person in an election
- interference with lawful election campaigning
- unlawful campaigning
- failure to submit information or materials or to comply with resolution of electoral committee
- taking ballot paper out of polling place
Complaints to international human rights bodies
If you believe that the violation of your rights has not been remedied by Estonian institutions or courts, you should submit a complaint to international and European institutions, such as the European Court of Human Rights or the UN Human Rights Committee.