diff --git a/state-chain/pallets/cf-elections/src/electoral_systems/state_machine/state_machine.rs b/state-chain/pallets/cf-elections/src/electoral_systems/state_machine/state_machine.rs
index 0e557dee71..fa14ef1a8f 100644
--- a/state-chain/pallets/cf-elections/src/electoral_systems/state_machine/state_machine.rs
+++ b/state-chain/pallets/cf-elections/src/electoral_systems/state_machine/state_machine.rs
@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ use sp_std::fmt::Debug;
 /// `input_index`, an election with these election properties is going to be created automatically.
 ///
 /// ## Idle results
-/// When there is no consensus, the electoral system still has to return sth in its `on_finalize`
-/// function. This value is provided by the `get(&State) -> DisplayState` function. The associated
-/// `DisplayState` type is an arbitrary "summary" of the current state, meant for consumers of the
-/// `on_finalize` result.
+/// When there is no consensus, the electoral system still has to return something in its
+/// `on_finalize` function. This value is provided by the `get(&State) -> DisplayState` function.
+/// The associated `DisplayState` type is an arbitrary "summary" of the current state, meant for
+/// consumers of the `on_finalize` result.
 ///
 /// Note: it might be that this functionality is going to be modelled differently in the future.
 ///
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ pub trait StateMachine: 'static {
 	type Settings;
 	type Output: Validate;
 	type State: Validate;
-	// type DisplayState;
 
 	/// To every state, this function associates a set of input indices which
 	/// describes what kind of input(s) we want to receive next.
diff --git a/state-chain/pallets/cf-elections/src/electoral_systems/state_machine/state_machine_es.rs b/state-chain/pallets/cf-elections/src/electoral_systems/state_machine/state_machine_es.rs
index f041122f65..b22ec95f33 100644
--- a/state-chain/pallets/cf-elections/src/electoral_systems/state_machine/state_machine_es.rs
+++ b/state-chain/pallets/cf-elections/src/electoral_systems/state_machine/state_machine_es.rs
@@ -15,21 +15,6 @@ use super::{
 	state_machine::StateMachine,
 };
 
-pub trait IntoResult {
-	type Ok;
-	type Err;
-
-	fn into_result(self) -> Result<Self::Ok, Self::Err>;
-}
-
-impl<A, B> IntoResult for Result<A, B> {
-	type Ok = A;
-	type Err = B;
-	fn into_result(self) -> Result<A, B> {
-		self
-	}
-}
-
 /// This is an Either type, unfortunately it's more ergonomic
 /// to recreate this instead of using `itertools::Either`, because
 /// we need a special implementation of Indexed: we want the vote to