VOTER REGISTRATION REMAINS STAGNANT AMID PANDEMIC
Also: Secretary of State Issues Humorous Halloween Video
Frankfort, Ky. (October 29, 2021) – Secretary of State Michael Adams announced that Kentucky’s voter registration remains stagnant, with September seeing an increase of only 0.04 percent. While the month saw 2,771 new registrations, 1,501 registrations were canceled – 929 deceased voters, 350 voters who moved out of state, 125 felony convicts, 64 voters adjudged mentally incompetent, and 33 voters who voluntarily de-registered.
“Don’t wait for voter registration drives to start again: register to vote online at sos.ky.gov,” said Adams.
In Lawrence County, as well as all other Kentucky counties, a potential candidate can register to run for office in the May, 2022 Primary election on Wednesday, November, 3, 2021. However, Clerk Chris Jobe said there is the matter of filling out “papers” before registration including financial info on how much a candidate intends to spend and how and where to file expenditures.
“If they want to register on the first day, they need to come in before Wednesday and get the expenditure papers filled out,” Jobe said.
He said there has been a tremendous amout of voters who have changed their registration from Democrat to Republican in Lawrence County. The Trump effect is at least part of the cause, Jobe said.
The last day to change your registration from one party to another and still vote in the may ’22 Primary is December31, Jobe added.
Democratic registrants represent 46.1 percent of the electorate in Kentucky, with 1,640,231 registered voters. Democratic registration dropped by 2,495, a 0.15 percent decrease. Republican registrants total 1,580,200, 44.4 percent of voters. Republicans saw an increase of 2,245 registered voters, an increase of 0.14 percent. In addition, about 9.5 percent of voters, 337,287, are listed under other affiliations, which saw an increase of 1,270 voters, 0.45 percent.
Complete registration statistics are available on the State Board of Elections website.
NOTE: For Halloween weekend, the Secretary issued this short, humorous video about efforts to bring Kentucky’s voter rolls into legal compliance.
Lazer editor Mark Grayson contributed to this story
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