Foreign experience of implementing of the electronic voting system as one of the most important mechanisms of electronic democracy
The article considers the experience of legal regulation of the e-voting system in foreign countries. The author has explored the introduction experience of information and communications technologies to the electoral system of such countries as Estonia, Norway, Switzerland, France and Australia. This article considers examples of e-voting systems of the above countries. The special attention is paid to the state policy of foreign countries in the field of improving e-voting and e-democracy in general by the lack of a unified approach to the legal regulation of e-democracy mechanisms and a unified approach to understanding their constitutional legal nature. The study analyzed the practice of using e-voting as one of the most important mechanisms of e-democracy. The author has studied aspects of e-voting as the issues of voter authentication, electronic counting of votes and the voter's digital signature as a tool of validating the implementation of active electoral rights. At the end author has concluded that we have an opportunity of using positive foreign experience in the implementation of the e-voting system in the Russian elections and we can start to develop legal rules to improve the effectively regulation of e-voting tools in our country.