CHAMBERSBURG – Pennsylvanians have until Oct. 21 to register to vote or make changes to their voter registration information ahead of the state’s Nov. 5 Presidential Election.
Qualifications to Register to Vote in Pennsylvania:
● Be at least 18 years of age on or before the day of the election.
● Be a citizen of the United States for at least one month before the election.
● Be a resident of Pennsylvania and the election district in which you want to register to vote for at least 30 days before the election.
Registering to Vote for the First Time or Updating a Voter’s Information
● Submit an application online at www.pavoterservices.pa.gov.
● Obtain a paper voter registration application from a candidate, political party or other federal, state or municipal office.
● Request a paper voter registration application from the Franklin County Voter Registration Office, 272 N. Second St., Chambersburg, or by calling 717-261-3886.
● Download a voter registration application from the Department of State’s website, www.vote.pa.gov, or the Franklin County website, www.franklincountypa.gov.
● Apply at a Department of Transportation photo license center when updating a driver’s license.
● Apply at a government agency:
Numerous state offices provide public assistance and services to persons with disabilities, including armed forces recruitment centers,clerk of courts offices, area agencies on aging or county mental health and intellectual disabilities offices and centers for independent living.
For additional information on Franklin County, people may visit www.franklincountypa.gov.
Once an application is processed, voters will receive a voter registration card in the mail noting the changes they have made along with the location of their polling places. Applications received or postmarked after Oct. 21 will be processed for the municipal primary in May 2025.
First-time voters will be asked to show ID the first they vote. Voters who have made any updates to their registration may be asked to show ID after the update. This is the only time voters will be asked to show ID. For a list of approved forms of ID, voters may visit the Department of State website, www.vote.pa.gov
Offices on the November Presidential Election ballot include U.S. president, U.S. senator, state attorney general, state auditor general, state treasurer, representative in Congress, senator in the General Assembly and representative in the General Assembly.
Some voters in Chambersburg Borough may be voting in new precincts in the November election due to census-driven reapportionment. And three area voter locations have been changed. Voters who are impacted and moved to other districts will receive a new voter registration card in the mail as well as a notice notifying them of their new polling location. The Borough of Chambersburg will also include information on this redistricting project in its October utility bill mailing.
