A Deliberation on the Application of New Technologies to the Electoral System and Its Legal Requirements in the Iranian Legal System

Rapid advances in new technologies have necessitated their application to the election process. This research seeks to answer the question as to what position new technologies will possess in the election process, what effects and results they may have and what issues the Iranian electoral system may encounter in this regard. In the present article, we shall delineate this issue in a descriptive-analytical format, that today modern electoral methods are expanding and have such advantages as motivating and facilitating citizen participation in elections, make savings in election expenses, transparency in elections and electoral health. It becomes also clear that the implementation of new methods in the Iranian electoral system faces such issues as the formation of electoral laws based on the traditional voting model, a case-by-case foreseeability of the use of new technologies among electoral laws, regardless of executive requirements and the fact that electoral laws are scattered and have not been organized in single code of law.In order to solve the said problems, speeding up ratification of the Comprehensive Election Bill, special attention to paragraph (12) of the General Policies of the Election System, and alike are presented as effective solutions to eliminate the existing gaps.