How to Vote

1. When you get to your voting locations:
   • You should take your Notice of Registration Card and one piece of identification (436KB PDF) with your name.
   • If you forget to bring your Notice of Registration Card, you will be asked to show one piece of identification (436KB PDF) with your name.
   • If you forget to bring one piece of identification (436KB PDF) with your name and residential address, the poll official will ask you to sign a statutory declaration.
   • If you have a Certificate to Vote, you must bring one piece of identification (436KB PDF) proving your name and residential address.
   • If you are an eligible elector and did not receive a Notice of Registration Card, bring one piece of identification (436KB PDF) with your name and residential address.

2. The poll official will verify your name, cross your name off the Voters List and hand you a folded ballot.
3. You will take your ballot behind the voting screen and put an X next to the name of the candidate of your choice.
4. Return your marked and refolded ballot to the poll official. The back of your ballot will be verified.
5. The folded ballot will be returned to you.
6. You drop your ballot into the ballot box.

Congratulations! You have exercised your democratic right to vote.

1. If you are an eligible elector, bring one piece of identification (436KB PDF) that includes both your name and residential address.
2. The Poll Official will give you a form to complete and sign. Your name will be added to the Voters List.
3. The Poll Official will hand you a folded ballot.
4. You will take your folded ballot behind the voting screen and put an X next to the name of the candidate of your choice

5. Refold your marked ballot and return it to the Poll Official.
6. The folded ballot will be returned to you.
7. You drop your ballot into the ballot box

Congratulations! You have exercised your democratic right to vote.

There are many options that make it easy for you to vote.

Elections Ontario offers you more days and more ways to vote.

Even if you can't go vote on election day or at an advance poll, you can still vote using a Special ballot.

It's our job to make your voting experience easy, whatever your needs. Please ask at your voting location, if you need help.

If required, you may:

• Bring a friend to assist you. Your friend will be required to take an oath.
• Bring a service animal into any voting location. You may need to show related documentation.
• Take advantage of the accessibility tools at each voting location to help you vote independently.

On election day, most voting locations:

• Will be wheelchair accessible, as indicated on your Notice of Registration Card.

On election day, all voting locations:

• Will have magnifiers, Braille ballot templates and other tools to assist voters who are blind or with vision loss.
• Will provide pens and pads to help electors who are deaf, deafened, or hard of hearing to communicate.
• Will provide the elector the opportunity to book a sign language interpreter paid by Elections Ontario through the Canadian Hearing Society's Ontario Interpreting Services to be with you at your voting location.

During the 11 days preceding election day:

In returning offices and satellite offices, assistive voting tools will be available that feature:

• Audio headphones
• Tactile buttons
• Large keypads marked with Braille
• Paddles
• A "sip and puff" device

If you have restricted mobility:

You may transfer to a more convenient voting location within your electoral district. Contact your Returning Officer to make arrangements.