many seniors opt for proxy voting

Gendarmes from the brigade of Oradour-sur-Vayres (Haute-Vienne) go to an Ehpad, Thursday April 7, to establish proxies for the presidential election, the first round of which is held on Sunday April 10. One of the residents, Lucette, wants to vote. “They gave us this right, we must keep it”, she confides. She will do so by proxy during the two rounds of voting. The gendarme offers him to make a power of attorney for the year which will also allow him to exercise his right to vote for the legislative elections.

The gendarmes sometimes go directly to people who cannot move. “As regards power of attorney for municipalities far from the place of the establishment of power of attorney, it is better to go about it at least two days before”, explains Fatih Adiyman, warrant officer at the Oradour-sur-Vayres gendarmerie. The proxies must then be forwarded to the town halls. On the walls of Paris, the association Saint-Vincent-de-Paul sticks posters to remind that some people need help to vote. You have to flash a QR code which then details the steps to be taken. In 2017, three million people voted by proxy.