Information and campaignment in the context of digital transformation of the electoral process
https://doi.org/10.52468/2542-1514.2025.9(4).78-87
Abstract
The subject. The article examines the basic approaches to the regulatory framework for informing and campaigning in the context of the growing influence of global digitalization on electoral law, the use of previously unknown digital technologies and the transfer of electoral legal relations to the Internet space.
The aim of the article is to identify the specific features of legal regulation of informing and campaigning in digital era.
The study of informing and campaigning was conducted with the methodology of a systems approach, formal legal interpretation of legislative acts and comparative legal analysis.
Main results. The search for an optimal mechanism for information support for elections in the context of changes in the content of the subjective rights of participants in the electoral process actualizes the need to improve the traditionally understood procedure for observing, implementing and using the law. The increasing complexity of the process of interaction between participants in legal relations and the expanding list of legal liability measures emphasize the importance of resolving law enforcement issues. The establishment of an expanded list of entities entitled to campaign in social networks, the inclusion of various information resources on the Internet (including the so-called "new media") in the list of sources of information dissemination, the possibility of recognizing the informational nature of materials distributed in the media by those entities that, by law, are subjects of campaigning activities – all this leads to the erasure of the boundaries between informing and campaigning and, in fact, to the creation of a new information electoral space for the preparation and holding of elections, requiring the establishment of new requirements and principles for its organization.
Conclusions The dissemination of campaigning in the field of the Internet space (digital services) transforms the rules for conducting campaigning. They become more unified, strictly ranked, which brings campaigning closer to informing and transfers the freedom of use of the right to the plane of compliance with the specified rules.
About the Author
N. Y. Turischeva
Kuban State University; Electoral Commission of the Krasnodar region
Россия
Россия
Natalia Y. Turischeva – PhD in Law, Associate Professor; Associate Professor, Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law; Secretary
149, Stavropol’skaya ul., Krasnodar, 350040
30, Gimnazicheskaya ul., Krasnodar, 350000
RSCI AuthorID: 508263
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