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The Commission has regulatory powers to determine how all the Elections Activities shall be run. The Electoral Act Cap 13 empowers the Commission to make such regulations vis-à-vis the registration of voters, Presidential and Parliamentary Elections, Elections offences, Electoral Code of Conduct and penalties, Elections petitions and the hearing and determination of applications relating to Parliament.
The Local Government Act Cap 282 also provides for the Commission to administer the Local Government Elections.

In order to make its operations effectual and have a specific direction and focus on what needs to be achieved in the immediate future, the Commission has set for itself the following goal:-.

• "To manage an effective and responsive electoral process for timely conduct of elections to democratically elect representatives.”

The Electoral Commission is open to any registered organisation in the Country that calls upon it to provide services in terms of organising, supervising and conducting elections to elect their executive officers. This is not a constitutional nor statutory requirement but it is done in the spirit of good-will where these
organisations are not made to pay service charges to the Commission but can only meet transport costs in terms of fuel expenses and allowances for the officers from the Commission.

In line with the constitutional requirement vis-a-vis the execution of the constitutional and statutory functions the Commission has set itself the mission statement as the baseline from which it would meet the needs of the stakeholders in the electoral process at the same time fulfilling the constitutional requirement. The mission statements reads as follows:-

• To develop and maintain an effective and responsive electoral process in order to ensure the conduct of transparent, free and fair elections for the benefit of the people of Zambia.