AARP Delaware assists older voters prior to Tuesday’s primary

AARP Delaware helps residents 50 and over with the completely different choices to vote in Tuesday’s main –and serving to them make their voices heard.

This yr’s main options races up and down the state, and AARP Delaware presents seniors a spot to go on their web site to assist navigate completely different voting choices, in addition to hyperlinks to the state elections web site.

AARP Delaware’s Sheila Grant says they’re additionally reaching out to assist these with out net entry or want to not use the net.

“We all know not all people’s on-line so we did ship out postcards to voters in Delaware a number of weeks in the past, and they need to have gotten these by now with telephone numbers for every of the County elections workplaces,” stated Grant. “In order that if they don’t seem to be on-line they’re going to have a telephone quantity and a technique to get the knowledge they want.”

The plan would be the identical for the overall election in November to ensure everyone seems to be knowledgeable and able to vote.

And in Tuesday’s main, Grant factors to a number of points seniors see as priorities

“Rising costs is the massive factor we’re listening to from all people. Groceries, fuel, pharmaceuticals actually affecting folks. They’re additionally involved concerning the pandemic not over but, they usually’re involved about social safety and Medicare. We all the time hear about considerations that we are going to defend and strengthen these packages that folks have paid into,” stated Grant.

Grant provides retirement financial savings and household caregivers struggling come up usually.

She notes seniors have a tendency to indicate up on the polls traditionally, even in primaries, and the vote by mail possibility helped a whole lot of seniors solid ballots in 2020.