Aim. To identify problems and find optimal approaches to the introduction of electronic voting in municipal elections in Russia. Methodology. Analysis of regulation and implementation of mechanisms of stationary and remote electronic voting was carried out. During the work, methods were used: dialectical approach, systemic-structural, formal-legal, comparative legal, axiological, etc. Results. The problems and limitations of the electronic voting use are identified. It can only become an auxiliary method of voting at modern municipal elections. General approaches to its further development and improvement are proposed. The importance of ensuring security and confidentiality of electronic voting in line with the concept of «chain of trust» is given ground for. At the same time, the identified problems require not abandoning modern technologies, but their improvement and adaptation to the legal realities in Russia. Research implications. The author proposes directions for the development of electronic voting, associated with expanding the coverage of electronic voting technologies in municipalities of Russia, increasing transparency and transparency for voters in the processes of registering their votes and ensuring the secrecy of expression of will. The significance of the experience of the municipal level of organizing elections is seen in the fact that this level of public authority, which is the closest to the population, has become an experimental platform for accumulating and generalizing the experience of organizing and conducting electronic voting, primarily remote voting.