Voting in the Pandemic - How Omicron Restored the Right to Vote in Portugal
Violante, Teresa
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Verfassungsblog
2022-01-28
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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.
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Violante, Teresa
COVID 19
Election law
elections
Right to Vote
State of Emergency
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https://verfassungsblog.de/voting-in-the-pandemic/
Verfassungsblog
2366-7044
Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH
10.17176/20220128-180343-0
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