LEGAL REGULATION OF THE PRINCIPLES TOTALIZATION AND VERIFICATION OF VOTING RESULTS

The objectives of the study: to research the electoral process; to establish the stages of this complex system; to highlight its essential characteristics; to determine the category of principles of the final stage of the electoral process; to elucidate the essence of the possible principles of aggregating and verifying the results of voting; present and substantiate the content of each of these principles. The research methods used were analysis and synthesis, abstraction and generalization, classification and concretization, affirmation and denial, deduction and induction, etc. The results of the paper: we determined, characterized and demonstrated the following principles of totalization and verification of voting results: the principle of the integrity of the procedure counting of votes; the principle of accurate recording of election results; the principle of the integrity of the procedure for centralizing election results; the principle of parallel counting of votes; the principle of truthfully calculating the results of electronic voting; the principle of correctly announcing election results; the principle of timely publication of official results; the principle of verifying the election results; the principle of confirmation of election results; the conditions for implementing the electoral principles. The basis for this order and classification of the principles of totalization and verification of voting results was the content and sequence of sub-stages of the final stage of the elections. In this order, we have presented and substantiated the content of each of these principles.