Research 20 ILIC 2019

Abstract:  Electoral crimes are crimes of particular importance as they accompany the electoral process and affect the conduct of the election. This influence often leads to the deviation of the democratic process from its proper course, where it is possible to bring the perpetrators of this kind of crimes to power by illegal or delivery of others Illegal methods and contrary to the will of the people and the Jamahiriya, which participated and chose their representatives through the process of election and this will lead to the creation of a state of reluctance and boycott of the elections in the future so must be addressed these crimes extensively through the finding of severe penalties commensurate Hajj These crimes to preserve the desire of the people to democratize and exercise democracy and the peaceful transfer of power and to be Iraq is one of the countries that saw democracy after 2003 on a large scale led to the multiplicity of political parties and currents and movements, which made a large competition between them in order to reach the House of Representatives and take power, which made Some think of resorting to unfair competition through the commission of electoral crimes, starting from the process of electoral propaganda to pressure the masses by multiple means to obtain votes through fraud or the provision of bribes or threats or promises may come up To the kidnapping or killing in some cases to get rid of competitors in the electoral process and all that needs to be monitored and deter through effective punitive provisions against those who are robbed by the will of the Iraqi voter and directing them in another direction that serves their personal and factional and partisan interests and perhaps images of the attack on the electoral process in Iraq To the announcement of the results and ratification of some of the destruction of ballot boxes or burned to change the results, so this study was keen to analyze the Iraqi penal and electoral legislation in order to determine the electoral crimes committed during the preparation of the election Or when the results are announced and ratified, and whether the penalties received were sufficient to deter the perpetrators and reduce the ongoing attacks on the electoral process and the exercise of democracy in Iraq and this is what we will try to study in detail through the division of research into three areas and the first to expand the concept of election, Electoral Crimes and its Types In the third and final topic of the study of the penalties that were mentioned in the Iraqi legislation and its effects through its review in the Iraqi Penal Code No. 111 in 1969 amended and the election laws issued in Iraq since the establishment of the state The Iraqi statement and weaknesses of such legislation and what are its processors as well as focus on the strengths and the viability of deterrence to curb such crimes