Tuesday’s primary election was billed as a test run for Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law.

But a survey of polling places throughout the midstate suggests that maybe the wrong people were being tested.

Without a presidential primary race to top either party’s ballot, turnout across the area was low. Those who did vote described themselves as regulars, people who enjoy wearing a little “I voted” sticker twice a year.

They follow the news. They knew poll workers were going to be asking every voter if they had identification to prepare people for the November election, when the law will require all voters to show ID.

Many voters had their driver’s licenses out before they were asked.

“When I was leaving my house, I was like, I better have my ID,” said Sally Snyder, who voted in Harrisburg’s 9th Ward at Shared Ministry.

If there’s a problem this fall, voters and poll workers agreed, it won’t come from people like Snyder.

It will be people who vote, at most, once every four years and don’t closely follow the news. It will come from young people voting for the first time who don’t drive or the elderly who let their licenses expire.

And many Harrisburg voters predicted there will be problems.

Pat Warren, the judge of elections at the 10th Ward, 2nd Precinct at the Camp Curtin YMCA, said she is a caretaker for an elderly woman who does not have an ID. She rarely leaves the house, Warren said, but she will want to vote. The law will present her with another hurdle.

Kalem Calien, 28, said he’s always brought an ID and proof of address to his polling place at Central Allison Hill Community Center, just in case there is confusion. He worried that young voters might miss out in the fall.

“I know a lot of people who don’t have ID, usually in the 18-to-21 range,” Calien said. “If you don’t drive, you don’t really need one until you’re 21.”

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