Senior citizens offered help with voter ID law
Pennsylvania’s new voter identification law will be explained at information sessions at area senior centers.
State Rep. Peter J. Daley, D-California, has scheduled the sessions at centers, including those in Vestaburg, Brownsville and California.
“The new law, which requires individuals to show current photo identification when they vote, could catch many individuals off guard on election day in November,” Daley stated in a news release. “In the spring, some polling places asked for photo identification, but come November, everyone must show not just any photo identification, but identification from an approved list. If you don’t have PennDOT-approved photo identification, a current driver’s license that lists your name as it appears with your voter registration, or some other identification from the approved list, you could be turned away.”
Daley said that as many as 2,500 in the 49th Legislative District could be denied the right to vote based on the new identification criteria, and many of those people are older adults.
Daley’s staff will be on hand to answer questions and to provide information about the new law at the Beth-Center Senior Center in Vestaburg at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday; at the Brownsville Senior Center on Shaffner Avenue at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16; and at the Republic Senior Center on Fairgarden Street at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19.
Sessions also will be held at the Center in the Woods in California at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, and at the Center on the Hill in Washington Township at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 24.