If you become ill or disabled within seven days of an election and are unable to go to your polling place, you may request in a written statement, signed under penalty of perjury, that a ballot can be delivered to your authorized representative. He/she will receive your ballot after presenting the signed statement at the Butte County Elections Office. If your authorized representative returns the ballot, the appropriate sections of the vote by mail ballot return envelope must be completed. These ballots may not be mailed.

Assistance

Persons unable to complete their ballot may bring one or two persons with them into the voting booth to assist them, or they may ask poll workers to provide assistance.

Curbside Voting

If architectural barriers prevent an elderly or disabled voter from entering the polling place, poll workers will bring the necessary voting materials to the voter in front of the polling place.

Reading Tools

Every polling place has special sheets to magnify the type on the sample ballot booklet and ballot if you are having difficulty reading the ballot clearly.

Seated Voting

Every polling place has at least one voting booth which allows voters to sit in a chair or a wheelchair while voting.