Ensuring and Protecting Electoral Sovereignty

Attempts to interfere in the elections of sovereign states have become a permanent phenomenon. Modern science has not yet developed a unified assessment of this negative phenomenon of modern democracy. Accumulating, summarizing, and analyzing the information related to attempts to influence free elections from abroad, the author concludes that the institution of "assistance in developing democracy" created by the "collective West" at the end of the last century de facto pursues the goal of "political enslavement" of young democracies, depriving them of their sovereignty. To ensure the freedom of choice of their people, the supremacy of the law, and state sovereignty, it is necessary to carry out systematic activities to protect electoral sovereignty, including at the international level. The author convincingly argues that interference in elections is an illegitimate phenomenon from the standpoint of national and international law, substantiates the need for the state to ensure sovereignty during the organization and conduct of electoral procedures. The author also believes that electoral sovereignty, as one of the forms of expression of state sovereignty in the electoral sphere, occupies a special place in the typological series of various variations of sovereignty.