The same way we all do! My dad and 2 brothers and a sister are all 100% blind and before Mail in ballots, they went into the polls. Their respective partners or another person would go in with them to assist. Now they do the same thing just by mail 😉

I'm assuming you're Canadian? I'm not able to vote this time as I'm no longer in the country, but last election it was easy. Just get yourself to the polling station, and they'll help you.

Someone will take you to get your ballot, then take you to the voting booth. You just tell them who you'd like to vote for, and they'll take care of it for you.

If you can help it, I strongly recommend asking for assistance in elections as little as possible. This is because we have the right to privacy as everyone else does. There should be accessible ballot machines with Brailled buttons, headphones, and text-to-speech that enable you to vote without asking for sighted assistance. I live in a very rural area of the United States, and they literally have nothing for visually impaired people, but they had an accessible ballot machine. I hope this helps. :)

In the UK every polling station has a tactile voting machine for people with sight loss.

Edit: or you can use a proxy vote, or postal vote. There's also required to be a large print copy of the ballot paper at the polling station, or you can request a staff member to help you.

México. My sister helped me

Ireland recently changed how they did it, as one man felt it was against his rights to have someone else know his vote

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/60cc1-ballot-paper-template-for-voters-who-are-blind-or-vision-impaired/#

In the US each polling place has a CCTV & computerized system to mark your ballot if you are BVI. If the system is down, they use two impartial witness to read your ballot to you, and assist you in marking it. Now with Mail-in/absentee I have my wife mark it for me.

>[To use [accessible voting] machines, a blind person reviews the ballot via speech output through headphones and uses buttons to scroll through the ballot and choose candidates.](https://www.afb.org/aw/3/6/14889)

Basically, you just need someone to assist, hopefully that you trust. I help my dad these days. You can do it! There may be other ways for blind folks to vote, but this is how they let us do it in CO!

Here in the Bay Area in the US, we actually have an accessible voting from home system where you fill out an accessible online form that you then print and put into your envelope. The ballot envelope has a tactile marking where you have to sign your name, and then you just mail it in. My wife is sighted, so most of the time she just fills out my ballot with my decisions. When we voted at the polls, she would take both of our ballots into the stall and fill them out with our choices. Per the ADA, all polling centers must have accessible voting machines or mechanisms, but the quality of that varies county to county across the nation.

So we had an election in Canada a few days ago. I was handed a stencil card with numbers, and then a sheet of Braille which listed the numbers next to the name and party. Then I went behind the voting screen, and had the ballot slotted inside the stencil so I knew where all the numbers on the ballot were. Then I wrote my vote with a pen by just drawing a small circle.

However this is my idea for how voting could or should work. Since they already use numbers they should use a touch tone phone, or computer, and then you just write the number of the candidate by pressing it. I hear they have electronic voting machines so wouldn't that be similar to my idea?

I’m in the UK and prefer a postal vote.

I get someone to help but can keep my actual vote private

I have lived in large cities as well as rural areas in Texas. Everywhere I have lived has had the accessible machines with a headphone jack. At this point, since we go to vote together anyway, I usually let my wife be my reader.

Here in Portugal, where all the voting is cast on paper, we have stencil Braille envelopes with holes matching the squares where you are supposed to make a cross, however there's also the option of being accompanied by a sighted person of your trust, which is what I do since I struggle a lot with Braille.

In Canada we have braille ballots, large print templates, magnifiers at polls, signature guides, and the option to have ither a poll worker or a friend/family member that has taken an oath and signed a helper form read out and assist in marking your ballot.

Our federal elections are all paper ballots with no machines