US ELECTORAL BODIES AND OFFICIALS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF FEDERAL SYSTEM

Abstract

This article examines recent developments in the field of U.S. voting rights reviewing federal, regional and local legislation and making references to constitutional and standard acts of all U.S. subjects for the beginning of 2019. The methodology of research includes comparative-legal, formal-legal, formal-dogmatic, concrete-sociological, empirical, dialectical, analytical methods, and systemic approach. The outcomes of the research consist in introducing new data on U.S. electoral bodies and officials into Russian legal literature. The author makes his interpretations of some provisions of the legislation and legal awareness of U.S. electoral laws and law-enforcement practice highlighting some legislation gaps requiring further research. The theoretical and practical value of the research consists in reviewing both well-established and recent legal sources (constitutions, organic laws, federal laws, charters, subordinate normative acts) and U.S. subjects and making proposals for the development of Russian legal science and forming objective understanding of constitutional, electoral and state-building processes in the U.S.A.