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Voter turnout expected to be 10-12 percent Tuesday
By Jack Brammer
jbrammer@herald-leader.com
FRANKFORT – Voter turnout in next Tuesday’s primary elections is expected to be only between 10 and 12 percent, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes said Thursday.
Grimes said turnout should be a little higher — in the 4th Congressional District in northern Kentucky, where there are contested primaries for Republicans and Democrats to fill the seat of retiring U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis.
State sets voter registration record; GOP gaining on Democrats
FRANKFORT — More Kentuckians than ever will appear on the voter rolls in the May 22 primary election, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes announced Wednesday.
The total number of registered voters – 2,980,009 – beats the previous record of 2,944,603, set during the 2011 general election, by more than 35,000 voters, Grimes said in a news release.
House panel approves bills to cut cost of special elections, require electronic filing
By Beth Musgrave
bmusgrave@herald-leader.com
FRANKFORT — A measure that would allow county clerks to open limited precincts in uncontested special elections passed a House committee Tuesday and is now headed to the full House for a vote.
Also on Tuesday, the House Committee on Elections, Constitutional Amendments and Intergovernmental Affairs passed a bill that would require candidates for statewide elected office to file campaign finance reports electronically.
Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes told the committee Tuesday that a recent special election in Whitley and Laurel Counties for former Rep. Dewayne Bunch’s seat cost a total of $47,000. Voter turnout in the uncontested special election was less than 2 percent in Whitley County and 1 percent in Laurel County.
Regina Bunch, Dewayne Bunch’s wife, ran unopposed in the election. After reimbursement from the state, the special election cost Whitley County $33,000. It cost Laurel County $6,000, Grimes said.
Lundergan Grimes names her executive staff in secretary of state office
FRANKFORT – Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes named her executive staff Tuesday, headed by two former Fayette County prosecutors.
Grimes, who was sworn into office Monday, appointed Lexington native Lindsay Hughes Thurston to serve as assistant secretary of state.
Thurston previously was an assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Kentucky, where she prosecuted, among other things, child exploitation offenses. She formerly was an assistant in the Fayette County Attorney’s office.
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