Canada Elections Act

Marginal note:Assistance by friend or related person

• 155 (1) If an elector requires assistance to vote, a friend, the spouse, the common-law partner or a relative of the elector or a relative of the elector’s spouse or common-law partner may accompany the elector into the voting compartment and assist the elector to mark his or her ballot.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) No person shall as a friend assist more than one elector for the purpose of marking a ballot.

• Marginal note:Oath

  (3) A person described in subsection (1) who wishes to assist an elector in marking a ballot shall first take an oath, in the prescribed form, that he or she

  • (a) will mark the ballot paper in the manner directed by the elector;

  • (b) will not disclose the name of the candidate for whom the elector voted;

  • (c) will not try to influence the elector in choosing a candidate; and

  • (d) has not, during the current election, assisted another person, as a friend, to mark a ballot.

• Marginal note:Prohibition — failure to maintain secrecy

  (4) No person who assists an elector under this section shall, directly or indirectly, disclose the candidate for whom the elector voted.