GENERAL VOTING LAW IN THE SYSTEM OF VOTING LAW

Abstract

Universal suffrage occupies a fundamental place in the system of principles of modern electorallaw, which is the basis of legal regulation of the entire electoral process and defines the boundarieswhere the mechanism of electoral legal relations operates.Consolidation of the generality principle is necessary precondition for guaranteeing theelections. The need to apply the universal suffrage is due to the historical development of society, theresult of which was the demand to consolidate democratic ways of the formation of representativeagencies of state authority and local self-government agencies, the basis of which is the universalsuffrage.Ignoring the generality principle in the process of elections actually negates the fairness in therealization of the right to elect and be elected and as a result makes doubts about the legitimacy ofelections and democratic development of the country.