§ 1218Assistance in Voting

(a) No voter shall be permitted to receive any assistance
in voting at any primary or election, unless there is recorded
upon his registration card his declaration that, by reason of
blindness, disability, or inability to read or write, he is
unable to read the names on the ballot or on the voting machine
labels, or that he has a physical disability which renders him
unable to see or mark the ballot or operate the voting machine,
or to enter the voting compartment or voting machine booth
without assistance, the exact nature of such condition being
recorded on such registration card, and unless the election
officers are satisfied that he still suffers from the same
condition.
   (b) Any elector who is entitled to receive assistance in
voting under the provisions of this section shall be permitted
by the judge of election to select a person of the elector's
choice to enter the voting compartment or voting machine booth
with him to assist him in voting, such assistance to be rendered
inside the voting compartment or voting machine booth except
that the judge of election, the elector's employer or an agent
of the employer or an officer or agent of the elector's union
shall not be eligible to assist the elector.
   (c) In every case of assistance under the provisions of
this section, the judge of election shall forthwith enter in

writing in a book to be furnished by the county board of
elections, to be known as the record of assisted voters--(1)
the voter's name; (2) a statement of the facts which entitle
him to receive assistance; and (3) the name of the person
furnishing the assistance. The record of assisted voters shall
be returned by the judge of election to the county board of
elections with the other papers, as hereinafter provided, and
said county board shall permit the same to be examined only
upon the written order of a judge of the court of common pleas:
Provided, however, That such record shall be subject to subpoena
to the same extent to which other election records may be
subpoenaed: And provided further, That the county election board
shall permit any registration commission to examine any records
of assisted voters without a court order, in order that the
registration commission may ascertain whether electors, who
have declared, at the time of registration, their need for
assistance, actually did receive assistance when voting at any
election.
   (1218 amended Dec. 9, 2002, P.L.1246, No.150)