A small group of Pennsylvania voters who cast a ballot in 50 consecutive November elections is an elite bunch. In the state, they’re inducted into the “Voter Hall of Fame.”

However, thanks to a new Voter ID law passed by state Republicans, nearly one-fourth of these civically minded seniors do not have the proper state-issued ID to vote this November.

TPM reports:

Pennsylvania’s “Voter Hall of Fame,” organized by the Department of State, is a list of 21,000 inductees who have voted in 50 consecutive general elections. Of the 5,923 of them who are currently registered voters, 1,384 of them either have no valid state ID or have an ID which expired before Nov. 6, 2011, which would make it invalid at the polls under the state’s voter ID law.

The PA AFL-CIO matched Hall of Fame inductees with a list of registered voters who lacked a form of photo ID, only including individuals who were over 68 years old and who voted in the 2011 election to restrict analysis to still living voters.

Several seniors, interviewed by TPM, had their licenses expire or didn’t renew them because of health problems and the inability to drive. Julie Mecca, 90, had cataract surgery three months ago and hopes she can get another ID in time to vote.

Mecca said:

This country is in a bad state of mind….I’d like to see the best man get in there. I don’t know why, for what reason, [voter ID was passed]. I couldn’t tell you.

Besides seniors, TPM reported the AFL-CIO’s analysis found more than 79,000 voters who voted in every election since 2000 lack state-issued photo ID:

The Republican administration in Pennsylvania claimed in a press release that 99 percent of voters already had a valid form of ID but had no evidence to support that claim. While the law was passed to prevent in-person voter fraud, the state admitted it had no evidence that such fraud had taken place in the state.

Read the entire TPM article here.