Alternative Title
Case Comment: Daniel De Costa Augustin v Attorney-General
Publication Type
Case note/Digest
Publication
Singapore Law Journal (Lexicon)
Publication Date
1-2021
Abstract
On 10th July 2020, Singapore held its Parliamentary Elections, while in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Elections have been similarly held elsewhere during this pandemic, and suffice to say that the pandemic, and its resulting implications, have raised various interesting legal questions in some of these jurisdictions.1 To that end, a wide range of regulations and rules pertaining to elections have also been passed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In some jurisdictions, such as certain states in the United States, voting by mail was allowed with no excuse required, so as to prevent the further spread of COVID19 via the polling stations. In others, lockdown restrictions were completely eased to facilitate voting, to the extent that some voters were also allowed to choose whether to wear protective devices or not (e.g., gloves and masks)
Disciplines
Courts | Public Health
ISSN/ISBN
2737-5048
Publisher
SMU Lexicon, SMU School of Law
Version
Publisher’s Version
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Format
application/PDF
Citation
FUN, Joel Wei Xuan.
Elections during COVID-19: Welcome clarifications, unanswered questions. (2021). Singapore Law Journal (Lexicon). 1, (1), 36-47.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sljlexicon/8
Volume
1
Page
36-47
Additional URL
https://www.docdroid.com/el45RiF/lexicon-singapore-law-journal-jan-2021-edition-pdf