Federal, provincial, and municipal elections have offered mobile voting for many elections. This photo shows a returning officer helping a Calgary voter during an Alberta provincial election.

Currently, mobile voting is offered at:

• hospitals and treatment centres,
• supportive living and long-term care facilities, and
• emergency shelters or community support centres.

Facilities must have at least ten electors who are inpatients, residents or receiving services at the facility to be eligible for a mobile voting station. Where consultation with facility staff determine the service to be appropriate, a voting officer and a record clerk, along with a facility representative, set up a stationary a fixed location voting station, go to bed-to-bed, or both, depending on the situation.

Mobile voting can occur on any of the days established for advance voting and/or on Election Day.

Photo Credit: Glenbow Archives NA-5600-6293c

In what other ways does the electoral process provide access to vote? What other ways do you think access should be provided?