The main goals of its activities are training of election organizers and other participants in the electoral process, as well as improving the level of legal culture of citizens.

[8] The goal was to ensure equal distribution of airtime among candidates and parties, to comply with the procedure for publishing election results and to timely suppress violations in this area.

[9] According to experts, despite the futility of applying this system to the electoral process in foreign countries,[10] it remains extremely popular to ensure the legality of elections in Russia itself.

One of the constant lines of educational work with youth is to conduct study tours of the building of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.

If in mid-2017 experts agreed on the overall inefficiency of this state structure,[12] then by the end of 2019 independent observers directly linked the reduction in violations in election commissions of various levels with the actions of the RCTET at the Central Executive Committee of Russia.

[13] The Commission has been known to be strict on candidate approval, with especially the Russian presidential elections being known to require that any and all documents are in order, whether due to real or disputed reasons.

In the 2012 Russian presidential election, Grigory Yavlinsky and Dmitry Mezentsev were rejected due to alleged invalid signatures, Lidiya Bednaya due to supposedly not providing necessary documentation, Eduard Limonov for not having initiative committee member signatures certified by a notary, and Boris Mironov for having been previously convicted of publishing anti-Semitic texts.