Zeman signs bills on quarantine voting, distance learning

Czech President Milos Zeman signed a bill to enable people in quarantine because of coronavirus to vote in the autumn Senate and regional elections in the Czech Republic and an amendment to the school law to codify distance learning as a regular method on Friday, his spokesman has announced. The new election legislation will enable those in mandatory quarantine to vote from a car at special points or use the system of special commissions coming to their homes with a portable ballot box. It also reckons with special polling points at health and social care facilities under quarantine.