Governor Beshear and Secretary of State Michael Adams unveiled Friday the plan to conduct the general election in November. Both said coming to an agreement worked well because protecting the health of voters and not politics was foremost in their minds.
Adams said voters will have several options this fall. “We’re not going to have a traditional election with 98% of voters voting in person on Election Day, we just can’t. We also can’t have 75% of voters mailing in a ballot like we did in June. We can’t have that either. This is going to be somewhere in the middle of that. And to make that feasible, we’re going to have expanded in-person voting,” said Adams.
The governor said it shows democrats and republicans can still reach agreement on something.
In fact, Beshear said politics didn’t get in the way of developing a voting strategy. He says it includes wider latitude in absentee voting. “That means if you are concerned about your own health or you are concerned about those that you come into contact with and spreading, you have this option. He’s an even bigger, better, point. The portal to request that ballot is going to be open within seven days,” noted Beshear.
There will be drop boxes at county clerks’ offices and early voting will get underway October 13th. Election Day voting will include a voter super center location in each county.
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