ON SOME PROBLEMS OF THE LEGAL STATUS OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS WITH ADVISORY VOTE

Abstract

In a democratic state the factor of increasing the number of election commissioners with advisory vote, observers and other supervisors of elections should be welcomed. But recent practice in election organization has revealed a number of loopholes in the electoral legislation demonstrating the lack of regulation of the legal status of election commissioners with advisory vote. The article proves the necessity to close these loopholes as they give rise to the abuse of rights by some unfair participants of electoral legal relationships. Thus the author proposes to make amendments to the law “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right of Citizens of the Russian Federation to Participate in a Referendum”.