Does election during pandemic undermine Right to Life in democracy ? Write a speech against it (word limit - 150-200 words) and no spam plz
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the meaning democracy means it is free for peaceful protest and right to vote democracy is for countries in now all countries are free and they are in democracy but England I think so not is not in democracy
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one of the defining characteristics of a democracy is that it holds regular, periodic elections (dahl 1971; przeworski 1999). this requirement was famously enshrined into article 21(3) of the universal declaration of human rights (un general assembly 1948). it is also embedded into many conceptualizations of electoral integrity (norris 2014). at the same time, there are occasions where a natural disaster such as an epidemic or tsunami may mean that holding an election will potentially introduce greater threats to human life and security. the problem was laid bare as the coronavirus pandemic spread in 2020. between february 21 and august 18, 2020, elections in at least 70 countries and territories across the globe had postponed some elections. and yet during the same time peroid, plans for national or subnational elections in at least 54 countries continued (international idea 2020a). court case battles ensued elsewhere, with the wisconsin supreme court blocking an executive order by the state governor to suspend in-person voting for the presidential primaries .The question of whether elections should be delayed in such circumstances has rarely been given detailed analysis. It has arisen in rare court judgments, such as that in Wisconsin, where arguments have principally focused on constitutionality. The question, however, is clearly critical for practitioners, judicial judgments, and democratic theory as it raises much deeper arguments and is therefore a major gap in the broader democracy and electoral law literature.
This article firstly contributes to this literature by providing a new typology of reasons why elections might be delayed to disentangle the causal factors and normative rationale. Seven separate categories are set out which include those which are predominately postponed because of the political interests of the incumbent, but also those which are postponed for technical reasons, peaceful conciliation, or humanitarian postponements that might be necessary because holding an election during a natural disaster would pose a threat to human life and health.