With regional and Senate elections due at the start of October, politicians have agreed on a means of allowing the thousands of people likely to be in quarantine at the time to cast their ballot. The proposed amendment to the law, which is to be approved in a state of legislative emergency, will allow three alternative forms of voting. The right to vote is a fundamental human right in the Czech legal order but, according to a special article introduced in 1995, people with a highly infectious disease, such as tuberculosis, lose that right, since enabling them to do so would present a public health hazard.