Some Comments on Voting by Post in the Pandemic Era – Law and Practice
- Institution: Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4179-9659
- Year of publication: 2022
- Source: Show
- Pages: 399-410
- DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/ppk.2022.06.29
- PDF: ppk/70/ppk7029.pdf
The spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Poland and, consequently, the introduction of the epidemic on March 20, 2020, influenced the decision not to hold the election of the President of the Republic of Poland scheduled for May 10, 2020. Therefore, in the face of objective difficulties in the organization of elections, a new voting deadline was set on June 28, 2020. Due to the prevailing global pandemic, the elections for the President of the Republic of Poland, ordered in 2020 with the possibility of postal voting, were conducted and prepared in exceptional circumstances. With this in mind, this article presents a number of various problems, and even limitations, of the electoral rights granted to each voter, which have become a consequence of the legal solutions introduced without in-depth analysis, often in a hurry. 1