Suffrage RF treated in an objective and subjective sense.In the first case, we consider a system of legal norms that ensure the regulation of social relations.These relationships are associated with the procedure of the election of territorial and state government.Subjectively, the right to vote is guaranteed by the Russian Federation to elect and be elected.In the first case we speak about active, and the second - of passive features.
concept of the right to vote, as in the whole electoral system is a collective character.In Russia, there are five sub-systems, in accordance with which establish the procedure for the election:
- President;
- State Duma;
- deputies of legislative offices in the subjects of the Russian Federation;
- heads of administrations of subjects;
- bodies of territorial self-government.
Suffrage Russian Federation has its own distinctive features.The most important of them is the one that the process of election of deputies of the State Duma and the President established exclusively by federal laws and the Constitution.At the same subjects of the federation are not involved in regulating the conduct of the procedure.
It should be noted that the Russian Constitution, a special section that regulates the right to vote of the Russian Federation, no.In a sufficiently general form, its rules fixed in Article 32. Some of the provisions are reflected in Article 81, which defines the procedure for the election of the President.It should be noted that no separate chapter does not mean that the text of the Constitution does not reflect the standards of electoral law.For all his principles or determining the initial position, secured sections that are devoted to the fundamentals of the state, the constitutional order, freedoms and rights of man and citizen, the structure of state power.
Under the principles required to understand the conditions and requirements without following which does not recognize the legitimacy of the elections.Basis is a reflection of democracy and expressing democracy in the country, secured at the constitutional level.The Constitution states that the right to vote is a direct and secret voting procedure, universal, equal.The federal law also set an additional voluntary principle.
considered Universal suffrage, which includes the participation in elections of all adults regardless of nationality, race, gender, official or property status, religion, origin, language, place of residence, membership of any association.In Russia the opportunity to actively participate in the vote is granted to persons who have attained the age of eighteen years.It should be noted that the grant citizens the right to vote is not the same compulsion to participate in them.In some cases, there may be a massive non-participation of citizens in the elections.Russian legislation set a certain percentage of the votes.If the elections present a smaller number of people, the elections are considered invalid.
In Russia, an active voting rights may be used by foreign nationals residing in the municipality where elections are taking place constantly.However, these citizens can not be elected (passive have opportunities to participate in the elections).
sources suffrage - is, first of all, the federal laws, the universally recognized norms and principles of international law, the Constitution of the Russian Federation, normative acts of subjects of the state, electoral commissions, local government.
State guarantees the confidentiality of the will of citizens.To do this, at the polling stations specially equipped booths in which citizens filled ballots.
