ELECTORAL PROTESTS AND ELECTION VALIDITY
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adiunkt w Zakładzie Systemów
Politycznych w Instytucie Nauk Politycznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Publication date: 2020-01-24
Studia Politologiczne 2011;22
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ABSTRACT
The aim of this article is an attempt to analyse the institution of election validity
and to examine in detail the notion of electoral protests which initiate this
procedure. The importance given to the procedure of electoral results verification
eventuates from the principle that the results of the elections are final and the
implementation of an important function – the legitimisation of public authority.
Electoral protests are useful in initiating election validity control by an independent
judicial authority in order to examine whether infringements could have influenced
the results of the elections. Electoral protests express civil dissatisfaction and the
right to complain is inherent to every voter.