The Presumption of Good Faith of the Voter as the Basis for Realization of Additional Forms of Voting
An article is devoted to the questions of the imperative order of registration of voters established by the Russian electoral laws, to the grounds for grating suffrage to voters and to the procedures of voting privilege. The author formulates concept of the presumption of good faith of the voter and reveals its contents through the mechanism of granting active right to the vote to voter, his inclusions in voting rolls, procedures of personal vote for each received bulletin. The comparative analysis of additional forms of voting leads to a conclusion that they include elements of a declarative order of registration under voting with absentee ballots, early voting and voting outside the polling station. Disclosure of essential characteristics of the presumption of good faith of the voter should help to eliminate the contradictions that arise between imperative and declarative procedure of voter registration.