>People who can't go to the polls for various reasons can authorize someone else to vote for them. >To do so, a voter must fill out a form ahead of time and br

>People who can't go to the polls for various reasons can authorize someone else to vote for them. >To do so, a voter must fill out a form ahead of time and bring it to a police station. A person can be the proxy of no more than one voter living in France — and potentially one additional person living abroad. >Up to 7% of people voted by proxy in the last presidential election five years ago. It's not that France isn't accounting for the people who can't make it to the polls on Election Day. It's just that they're doing it differently.