Elections - Help for disabled voters

Electoral Services provide special facilites to help voters with disabilites: 

All polling stations, with the exception of the Corinthian Sailing Club, have wheelchair access, and special ramps are provided where needed. 

• All polling stations have a polling booth adapted for people in wheelchairs.
• Polling cards have been made much larger to make them easier to read, and to include a postal/proxy vote application form
• Large print versions of ballot papers are also available in every polling station.There are also special aids available to enable blind voters to mark their ballot papers without assistance.
• If you are a disabled voter with disabilities that prevent you from being able to complete a ballot paper on your own, then you can take a friend or relative to the polling station to vote for you.
• The presiding officer at the polling station can help you fill in your ballot paper.             

If you don't want to go to the polling station to vote, please remember that all voters are entitled to vote by post, and voters with a disability can have a permanent proxy vote. Application forms are available to download at the bottom of this page or by contacting Electoral Services.

Postal Vote & Proxy Application Forms

Information on access to voting for disabled people from the Electoral Commission