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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2025 - 2026
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | January 27, 2025 12:01 PM |
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| From: | Senator Tracy Pennycuick |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Constitutional Amendment: Providing for Voter Identification |
| In the near future, I plan to introduce legislation amending the Pennsylvania Constitution to require voters to provide valid identification in order to cast a vote in an election. If approved in two consecutive legislative sessions, this measure would place a proposed amendment on the ballot, letting voters decide whether identification should be required to cast a vote in each election. The forms of ID would be the same as those already acceptable for first-time voters in Pennsylvania. By doing so, this proposal will enhance election security and increase voter confidence in our most fundamental democratic process. In 2021, Franklin & Marshall College conducted a poll and found that a large majority of Pennsylvania voters support strengthening the state’s voter ID requirements. According to the poll, 74% of respondents, including 77% of Independents, favored voter identification requirements at the polls. Currently, thirty-six states have laws requesting or requiring voters to show some form of identification at the polls. Pennsylvania would be among several other states to have a Voter ID requirement in the constitution, as Arkansas and North Carolina have both previously approved ballot measures to amend their state constitution to require photo voter identification. Please join me in co-sponsoring this important piece of legislation. |
Memo Updated: January 27, 2025 12:02 PM