mail in voting

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(06-22-2020, 02:26 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: You guys really need to get your facts straight.. 

Isn't this Gov. Andy Beshear's decision? He is Democrat. He is the one that cited the COVD virus as the reason for this change. 

Rep. Jason Nemes is Repub and he's fighting it in court and the Judge ruled against him. He wanted another polling place in Jefferson as well. 

Next up, there is only 120 counties in KY. So 200 polling places. That means at least 20 counties with only 1 polling place. Initially the Governor wanted only 1 polling place per county. 

So why are you guys busy crapping on Republicans when it was a Democrat that made the change? 

So here's some facts:

the Secretary of State, a Republican, is an elected official who has some autonomy and cannot always be overrueld by the governor. The two of them had to agree to pushing the primary back and to allowing mail in ballots. 

A big problem, however, is that the counties have the power to decide where their polling locations are (and how many there are). Beshear and the Sec of State were dismissed from the lawsuit for that reason. 

This is why you have this bipartisan coalition fighting together. It seems like the county boards of election are the ones who deserve the outrage, though they're claiming that there's logistical issues preventing them from having too many locations and that's why they're encouraging the use of mail in ballots (though many of these counties ****** the ballots up). Some of the counties will have 2000 different ballot types because of the different combinations of parties/districts that will be voting there.