Administrative Regulations
Administrative regulations are issued by electoral authorities to regulate specific managerial issues in an agile and simple way. Such regulations are more flexible than legislative procedures.
During elections, a lot of managerial issues have to be solved in an urgent way within short deadlines.
Electoral laws do not have to regulate such topics, which, by the way, can change one election at a time.
Administrative regulations complement electoral laws, and they have to be issued by electoral authorities in charge of undertaking elections from an executive point of view. Electoral authorities empowered to overview electoral actions have to review the regulatory amendments. There are many electoral structures empowered to undertake such a task. Usually,, such structures have to be independent, permanent, and transitory.
In countries with independent electoral authorities, such authorities are empowered to issue administrative regulations. The aim in those countries is to prevent the existence of insufficient regulations. Administrative regulations allow electoral authorities to regulate specific topics such as how political parties have to file their reports, how to handle candidates’ registry, electoral campaigns, electoral advertisement, the election day, and so on.
Summary: The Legal Framework
