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JPZenger

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10. News reports say Pa. will pay for non-driver photo IDs
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 04:27 PM
Mar 2012

The newspaper reports say that Pa. will start to pay for the photo IDs for people who do not have a driver's license. Therefore, that fee will disappear. There are a couple other forms of photo ID that will also count, such as an in-state current college photo ID.

There is at least one or two drivers license photo ID centers for each county. That is also where you get the non-driver ID. They are run by contractors.

The big cost and hassle will apparently be to get a birth certificate.

To answer a question above, when a person gets a driver's license today in Pa., they need to show an original birth certificate. That was required to make it harder for illegal residents to get PA. drivers licenses.

Some of the federal IDs (such as VA) apparently don't have an address, which may not be sufficient. A WWII combat vet was turned away from voting in Indiana because his VA ID didn't have his current address.

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