nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220128-180343-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220128s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220128-180343-0 doi eng 342 23 Violante, Teresa Author aut Voting in the Pandemic - How Omicron Restored the Right to Vote in Portugal Violante, Teresa Verfassungsblog 2022-01-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 COVID 19 Election law elections Right to Vote State of Emergency Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/voting-in-the-pandemic/ raw object