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Bucks County's voter ID task force has come up with dozens of ideas about ways county officials can get the word out concerning the state's new voter ID law.

They range from simple things like posting information to the county website and social media sites to wacky things like asking Bucks County Commissioner Charley Martin to do a rap video about the new law. (Though the rap video was only a half-serious suggestion.)

They cover every possible means of communication face-to-face conversations, mailers, print media, blogs, social media and videos and touch all age groups.

And most of them shouldn't cost the county a single dollar.

"We're trying to be fiscally responsible," said Neil Samuels, a member of the task force and deputy co-chairman of the Bucks County Democratic Committee.

Task force moderator Richard Coe, who is also the executive director of the Kids Voting program in Bucks County, said county officials didn't know the state would pass the voter ID law and didn't budget money for informing residents about it.

Making the recommendations cost-neutral also makes it easier for the county to implement them.

The committee will present its full list of more than 30 recommendations to the commissioners at their July 25 meeting.

"We dont expect that the county commissioners will be able to do all of these things, but it will give them a list to work from," Coe said.

More than 25,000 voters in Bucks County roughly 6 percent of registered voters do not have a driver's license or state-issued photo ID, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State. State officials have said they plan to mail information to each person on the list.

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Voter ID task force recommends ways to get the word out