{"id":160943,"date":"2026-04-09T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160943\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:00:09","slug":"100-lebanon-county-residents-inducted-into-pennsylvania-voter-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160943\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Lebanon County residents inducted into Pennsylvania Voter Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Wednesday, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt and the Pennsylvania Department of State inducted 100 Lebanon County residents into the Pennsylvania Voter Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The inductees were honored at a ceremony at the St. James Players theatre in the Lebanon Valley Mall. State and county officials congratulated the inductees for keeping their voting streaks alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cVoter Hall of Fame inductees serve as role models for all of us,\u201d Schmidt said. \u201cAll of them embody a patriotic commitment to our democratic process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Schmidt also helped induct the following four residents who have voted in at least 70 elections:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Arlene Miller of Jonestown, 70 years<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rose Lesher of Lebanon, 71 years<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Priscilla Wolf of Lebanon, 75 years<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kenneth B. Light of Palmyra, 76 years <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Every single person being inducted here today has voted 50 years in a row without missing a single vote,&#8221; Sean Drasher, with the Lebanon County Bureau of Elections. &#8220;Not only that, [but] we have people who have been voting over 70 years here that are going to be inducted, so that is a remarkable feat, so we are really proud on how they represent the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Department of State started the Pennsylvania Voter Hall of Fame in 1986. Since then, more than 25,000 voters statewide have been inducted, including more than 300 Lebanon County residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt and the Pennsylvania Department of State inducted 100 Lebanon County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34855,2808,2467,72649,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-160943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-department-of-state","tag-lebanon","tag-lebanon-county","tag-lebanon-valley-mall","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}