Peculiarities of Improving Electoral Rights Protection in the context of Introduction of Digital Technologies

The paper highlights the legal gaps that have arisen in connection with the introduction of digital technologies into the electoral process, the elimination of which will improve the mechanism for protecting electoral rights of citizens of the Russian Federation, as well as restoring violated rights. The author elucidates the issue of the need to detail the legal regulation in terms of remote electronic voting (DEG), including the establishment of criteria allowing constituent entities of the Russian Federation to conduct elections using DEG, the introduction of additional administrative offenses related to violation of electronic voting procedure, the elimination of possible assumptions of violation of the secrecy of voting in the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses. The paper raises the issue of election campaigning on the Internet, the possible limits of the use of neural networks that require legislative regulation, as well as the risks of influence from competing candidates by spreading false information with a proposal to introduce liability measures. Falsifications are pointed out as one of the significant threats to the use of artificial intelligence during election campaigns. The author also insists on the need to label content generated by neural networks, the imposition of sanctions for repeated violations of established requirements, and legislative activity initiated in this direction.

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