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Accessibility

Elections B.C.’s Accessibility Plan outlines the ways that the electoral process is made more accessible to voters by identifying, removing, and preventing barriers. The plan is available in multiple languages, including American Sign Language (ASL) in video format, which can be found here. 

 

The following voter registration and voting materials have also been translated into multiple languages:

  • Register to Vote
  • Voter Registration Form
  • Residency Rules
  • You Need ID to Vote
  • 2024 Provincial Electoral Districts

 

Languages include: 

  • Arabic 
  • Chinese-Simplified 
  • Chinese-Traditional 
  • Farsi (Persian)
  • French
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Italian
  • Japanese 
  • Korean 
  • Portuguese
  • Punjabi 
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Tagalog 
  • Vietnamese 

 

Find the translated materials here. 

All advance voting places and most general voting places are physically accessible to voters using mobility devices. If you can’t enter a voting place, you can vote outside the building (at the curb or in the parking lot).

You can get help marking your ballot for any reason. Tell the election official at the voting place if you want help, or you can bring a friend or family member to help you. Your friend or family member must declare they will help based on your wishes.

Voters can bring their own devices to the voting places to use. There is also an Accessible Voting System at each district electoral office to allow voters to vote independently. This includes voters with sight loss and voters with other forms of disability. Voters will have the option to listen to an audio recording of the candidate list for their district and cast their vote by using a hand-held selector device, sip-and-puff straws, or paddles.

All voting places have resources for you to mark your ballot if you have sight loss. All voting places have:

  • the List of Candidates in uncontracted Braille
  • Braille ballot templates
  • large print ballot posters

Election officials are trained to help if you are deaf or hard of hearing. There are visual aids at all voting places. You can also:

  • bring an interpreter to help
  • contact Elections BC by phone using voice to text services or by Video Relay Service (VRS) at 1-888-456-5448.

You are welcome to bring a translator or interpreter to help at the voting place. This includes interpreters for:

  • sign language
  • tactile signing
  • tracking

The translator or interpreter must declare they are able to act as a translator or interpreter, and that they will do the best job they can.