Contemporary internal affairs electoral campaign law enforcement

This article is an attempt to systematize knowledge about the forms of activities of the internal affairs bodies to ensure law and order during election campaigns in modern conditions. On the basis of established classifications on various grounds, conclusions are drawn about the emergence of a new (electronic) form of activity of the internal affairs bodies to ensure law and order. In the first part, the author notes that in recent years there has been a digitalization of public relations. In particular, it is pointed out that various state bodies have recently adopted a number of normative legal acts aimed at their organizational support. Separately, the author analyzes the legislation that allows the use of elements of digitalization in the electoral process, while paying special attention to the possible negative consequences associated with illegal impact on the electoral process. In the future, the internal affairs bodies are considered as one of the subjects of counteraction to violations in the field of the electoral process. The author gives the author's definition of the forms of activity of the internal affairs bodies to ensure law and order during election campaigns and suggests their classification. It is noted that at the present stage of the development of society and the electoral process, forms of activity also require their development and do not fully fit into the so-called «classical» classification. In this connection, the author identifies a new form of implementation of functions to ensure law and order in the activities of law enforcement agencies in the period of preparation for elections and during their holding - an electronic form. Also, he defined the signs that allow identifying the electronic form. The author concludes that the electronic form may become predominant in the activities of the internal affairs bodies to ensure law and order during the election campaigns.

electoral campaign, electoral process, forms of activity, internal affairs activity, digitalization