On the Order of Execution of the Responsibility to Ensure Equal Terms of Payment of Printed Agitation Materials

Abstract

From the position of the author, methodological recommendations of election commissions play a significant role in regulating the process of organizing and conducting elections. Based on the practice of the activity of the Tomsk City Municipal Election Commission, the author concludes that the obligation of business entities to ensure equal conditions for the payment of campaign materials requires additional regulation through the adoption of special acts containing methodological standards. It is also necessary to make changes to Federal Law No. 67-FZ to simplify the work of election commissions with information on the value sent by individual entrepreneurs and organizations. Currently, the legal community is actively discussing the possibility of adopting the federal electoral code of the Russian Federation, in this regard, the author draws attention to the need to preserve the practice of developing and adopting methodological measures by election commissions.