Open AccessUsing of biometric technologies in the electoral process: opportunities and limitations
Author(s) -
Elena Bylinkina
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ûridičeskaâ nauka i praktika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2078-5356
DOI - 10.36511/2078-5356-2021-3-126-130
Subject(s) - biometrics , referendum , voting , identification (biology) , process (computing) , law and economics , impossibility , internet privacy , political science , business , computer security , law , computer science , economics , politics , botany , biology , operating system
The article examines the prospects, as well as the limitations associated with the possible use of biometric technologies in the electoral process of the Russian Federation, in particular, the inaccessibility of centers that collect biometric data, low awareness of citizens, failure of biometric technologies. The article analyzes the risks that can lead to unlawful deprivation of voters’ constitutional rights to participate in elections and referendums. In the end, it is concluded that it is necessary to provide legal guarantees for observing the electoral rights of citizens and the right to participate in a referendum, in particular, to establish a procedure for fixing the facts of technical violations that do not allow identifying voters and making a decision on admitting such voters to voting. This procedure is designed to guarantee the observance of the electoral rights of citizens in conditions of impossibility of biometric identification due to technical violations.