Comments on the organisation of the all-postal voting during the state of epidemic

Abstract

The presidential election originally scheduled for 10 May 2020 coincided with an outbreak of coronavirus and the introduction of an epidemic state. As a result, the Polish state had to take measures which would enable all citizens to exercise their right to vote granted by the Constitution of the Republic of Poland while ensuring their health security. The solution to this problem was to be all-postal voting. The aim of this article is to collect and discuss the most important doubts related to the organisation of such a form of voting, including among others: ensuring the secrecy of the ballot, the authority responsible for holding the election, changes in electoral law in the period less than 6 months before the date of voting, as well as the possibility of holding elections during the state of emergency.