Election audits are increasingly used as a means of settling disputes about electoral results. Audits were used to help verify the results of elections in Afghanistan in 2009 and 2014, in Haiti in 2010, in Kosovo in 2009 and 2010, and in the poll for a new Constitution in Iraq in 2005. In developing democracies, where legal frameworks for elections are sometimes ambiguous, and governance structures and the rule of law may be weak, allegations of fraud are common and often legitimate.