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Alexey Szydlowski
Electoral Politics, vol. 4(2), 2020, pp. 3 - 18
Electoral Politics, vol. 4(2), 2020, pp. 3 - 18
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Szydlowski, A. (2020). LEGAL NATURE OF AN ELECTION COMMISSION WORKING GROUP (Full text English, Russian). Electoral Politics, 4(2), 3–18.
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Szydlowski, Alexey. “LEGAL NATURE OF AN ELECTION COMMISSION WORKING GROUP (Full Text English, Russian).” Electoral Politics 4, no. 2 (2020): 3–18.
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Szydlowski, Alexey. “LEGAL NATURE OF AN ELECTION COMMISSION WORKING GROUP (Full Text English, Russian).” Electoral Politics, vol. 4, no. 2, 2020, pp. 3–18.
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@article{alexey2020a,
title = {LEGAL NATURE OF AN ELECTION COMMISSION WORKING GROUP (Full text English, Russian)},
year = {2020},
issue = {2},
journal = {Electoral Politics},
pages = {3 - 18},
volume = {4},
author = {Szydlowski, Alexey}
}
Abstract
- This paper is the first attempt at a comprehensive study of the phenomenon known as "election commission working group" and its legal nature in the context of the Russian Federation. The author concludes that the phenomenon's theoretical aspects have yet to be studied from both positive and natural law standpoints. However, the theoretical aspect of a working group's practices regarding the receipt and processing of electoral documents is subject to the applied aspect and is intended to supply the electoral process with necessary tools. This, in turn, creates problems for the applied aspects of elections in the country, which are particularly relevant considering the empirical material of the 2020 election campaign. Further issues arise when it comes to providing a proper decision-making mechanism to an electoral commission as well as to making sure that citizens are able to practice their passive suffrage. That said, the first of the outlined issues mediates the second, since when there is failure in providing the proper decision-making mechanism to an electoral commission, the validity of its decisions becomes questionable.
