Imagine it's the first Tuesday of November. Rather than voting at your local precinct in your municipality, you would drive to the county "polling center" to cast your ballot.

In a Senate hearing on Tuesday, legislators and elections experts discussed this "polling center" concept and other possibilities to amend Pennsylvania's current election practices, many of which have been in place since 1937.

No specific legislation was recommended, considered or discussed. Instead, Sen. Mike Folmer, R-Lebanon County, said the purpose of the hearing was to look at Pennsylvania elections "from a 30,000-foot level" and open lines of communication between legislators and elections experts for ongoing discussion on legislative options.

One concept discussed was to create larger, centralized "polling centers" - rather than Pennsylvania's current requirement for one polling location per municipality - would require less man-power and resources than the current system, but would result in less elections locations, which could be further away and less accessible for rural voters.

Other issues discussed included elections methods like mail-in ballots and early voting; updating voting equipment; preventing voter fraud; voter-identification; and the chronic shortage of polling workers across the state.

No concrete conclusions were reached Tuesday's hearing.

As discussed, mail-in ballots could help voters who are unable to get to polling locations on election day, but could increase risk of fraud or coercion by a family member.

Early voting options could also help those unable to access a polling location on election day, but would increase costs.

Pennsylvania's voting equipment is notoriously some of the most outdated in the country, but it could require hundreds of millions of dollars to replace it.

Voter fraud and foreign interference have been concerns for years, but there is no evidence of such taking place in Pennsylvania.

Voter-identification could decrease the risk of voter fraud, but also may disproportionately affect populations with little access to identification. In fact, Pennsylvania's 2012 voter-identification law was ruled unconstitutional by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

And citizens' willingness to work polling stations in Pennsylvania have been steadily declining, largely due to long hours and little compensation, but Butler County Election Director Shari Brewer said if shifts are shorter, more workers would be required, which would require more training and resources than available.

As panel member Michael Dimino, a professor at Widener University Commonwealth Law School, said, "Concrete policies will favor some of these goals only at the expense of others."

In the "overview hearing" on elections, discussion on redistricting was notably absent. The word "redistricting" was not uttered once until the final minute of the two-hour, seven-minute-long hearing, when Folmer simply said, "This is just the beginning. There's a lot of issues we need to discuss, whether it's redistricting reform or whatever moving forward, we're going to be addressing those issues."

Leading up to and even past the presidential election, Pennsylvania made national news for its notoriously gerrymandered districts. Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District, in fact, has been scrutinized as one of the most gerrymandered districts in the country, nick-named "Goofy kicking Donald Duck" after its bizarre shape.

The House and Senate both have bills which aim to eliminate gerrymandering in Pennsylvania, but they have yet to go up for a vote. Neither bills were discussed at Tuesday's hearing.