Criminal protection of the integrity of the electoral process

Abstract

The electoral laws issued in Libya after 2011 organized the electoral process in detail, and decided criminal penalties in the face of its violation, by criminalizing some violations that affect the credibility of the electoral process. This research sheds light on the criminal protection of the integrity of the electoral process, and its calibration at a local and regional level, to know its effectiveness. The importance of this research comes from the aspect that it represents legal and rights awareness of the rules that protect a special right, which is the right of citizens to the freedom of effective expression of their political will. On the other hand, the research might benefit the formed committee in order to present a model electoral law, as it presents academic proposals that guarantee an optimal criminal policy, to extend criminal protection to the electoral process to ensure its integrity. Perhaps one of the most important results of the research is to identify many of the deficiencies observed in the Libyan electoral laws, including the absence of some important substantive criminal provisions, whether it is related to criminal patterns, or what is related to the absence of criminal penalties, as well as some procedural provisions, both of which were organized before the trial stage or at the trail stage.