한국선거의 선거운동 자유 증대를 위한 입법제도에 관한 연구

Abstract

In the elections, it should be free and fair, and ensured equal opportunity. When the freedom is a prerequisite for election campaign, political parties and candidates can transmit accurate information to voters, and voters can use the information to elect the most appropriate representative. In our electoral history, a number of election frauds have been performed from the Constituent Assembly Elections in 1948 to 1990s. Public Official Election Act was made because of the history of election frauds of those days. Therefore, the election law was focused on regulation in order to prevent election fraud, and to ensure fairness. However, we can see a result of the effort, through several times of the Presidential election and National Assembly election, the etc. Election fraud is almost disappeared now and it has entered an era of democracy. Due to the change of electoral environment, it is brought out of the election focused on the regulation, so as to do a campaign freely, voters obtain information of exact candidate in order to exercise a reasonable sovereignty. For these purposes, it was analyzed that the provisions of the current election law has restricted the freedom of election campaign and proposed legislative policy.