http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220128-180343-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/voting-in-the-pandemic/ Voting in the Pandemic - How Omicron Restored the Right to Vote in Portugal Violante, Teresa eng 2022-01-28 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 COVID 19 Election law elections Right to Vote State of Emergency Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On Sunday, 30 January 2022, Portugal will go to the ballots on a snap election. Despite some initiatives to adapt the legal framework of the right to vote to the challenges of a pandemic, the amendments failed to accommodate the cases of persons under compulsory quarantine on election day, disenfranchising hundred thousands of voters in 2020-2021. Ironically, the severity of the new variant Omicron, possibly limiting the rights of up to a million voters, appears to restore the right to vote, even though on a dubious legal basis.