Abstract

Following a participatory research, Handéo organized 14 voting awareness meetings between April 2019 and March 2020. The purpose of those meetings was to strengthen the disabled people’s ability to vote within the electoral system. Disability is often considered from the angle of capabilities, skills or potentialities. While pointing to the value of developing methods to empower people, this article suggests to describe the practices of professionals from a residential care home who escort some residents for the first and second rounds of the French local elections in 2020.