CHANGES ARE SHAPING UP. FOLKS WE TALKED TO SAY THEY VOTED EARLY BECAUSE THEY WANT TO AVOID ANY POTENTIAL BIG LINES ON ELECTION DAY WITH RECORD TURNOUT EXPECTED EVEN WITH THREE WEEKS OF EARLY VOTING. IT COULD BE SOME BIG CROWDS NEXT TUESDAY. BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMI AND YOU KNOW, I JUST I DIDN’T WANT TO STAND AROUND FOR FIVE HOURS AND WAIT, CHERYL COLE WAS AMONG THE EARLY VOTERS MONDAY AT THE KENTUCKY EXPOSITION CENTER WHEN A FOR EARLY VOTING SITES IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. THE FLOW IS STEADY, BUT NEVER CROWDED. I AM CONCERNED JUST THAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE HIGH ENOUGH TURNOUT NUMBERS BEFORE ELECTION DAY. IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR FOLKS TO VOTE EARLY SO THAT WE AVOID LONG LINES AND THAT WE ALSO BRING DOWN PEOPLE’S RISK OF CONTRACTING COVID AS OF SATURDAY IN JEFFERSON COUNTY 35 PERCENT OF REGISTERE VOTERS HAD TURNED OUT EARLY IN PERCENT IN PERSON AND 19% THROUGH RETURNED ABSENTEE BALLOTS. SO REALLY HOPING TO GET THAT NUMBER TURNED OUT OUT WELL OVER 50% BEFORE ELECTION DAY. WE CAN AVOID LINES AND CONFUSION FOR PERSPECTIVE JEFFERSON COUNTY SAW 57 PERCENT VOTER TURNOUT IN 2008. THE YEAR BARACK OBA WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT AND 45 PERCENT IN 2016. WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS ELECTED, BUT THERE WAS NO EARLY VOTING IN THOSE YEARS OVERALL. I THINK IT’S GONE FAIRLY SMOOTHLY. PROBABLY DIDN’T COUNT ON THE EASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY SPOT FOR EARLY VOTING TO BE SO POPULAR, BUT THERE ARE FOUR CONTESTED RACES OUT THERE. AND FOR HOUSE RACES STATEWIDE 28 PERCENT OF VOTERS HAVE CAST A BALLOT DEMOCRATS LEAD REPUBLICANS IN THE NUMBER OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS RETURNED BUT MORE REPUBLICANS HAV TURNED OUT IN PERSON. I THINK TRADITIONALLY REPUBLICAN HAS BEEN STRONG ON VOTING DAY. I KNOW I KNOW THAT’S THE SAME PATTERN YOU JUS MENTIONED OF HAVE A DEMOCRATS INITIALLY, BUT THAT WILL BALANCE OUT ALWAYS DOES AND SO WE’RE SORT OF ON THE SAME TRACK THAT WE W
Early voting numbers put Kentucky on pace for record-breaking turnout
Updated: 10:30 AM EDT Oct 27, 2020
With a record turnout expected, even with three weeks of early voting, there could be some big crowds next Tuesday. Cheryl Cole was among the early voters Monday at the Kentucky Exposition Center, one of four early voting sites in Jefferson County. The flow was steady, but never crowded.“I am concerned we are not going to have high enough turnout numbers before Election Day. It's really important to have folks turn out early so we avoid long lines and that we also bring down people's risk of contracting COVID,” Cole said. As of Saturday, in Jefferson County, 35% of registered voters had turned out early, 16% in-person and 19% through returned absentee ballots.For perspective, Jefferson County saw 57% voter turnout in 2008, the year Barack Obama was elected president, and 45% in 2016, when Donald Trump was elected, but there was no early voting in those years."Overall, I think it's gone fairly smoothly. Probably didn't count on the eastern Jefferson County spot for early voting to be so popular, but there are four contested races out there, four House races," voter Virginia Woodward said. Statewide, 28% of voters have cast a ballot. Democrats lead republicans in the number of absentee ballots returned, but more republicans have turned out in person.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — With a record turnout expected, even with three weeks of early voting, there could be some big crowds next Tuesday.
Cheryl Cole was among the early voters Monday at the Kentucky Exposition Center, one of four early voting sites in Jefferson County. The flow was steady, but never crowded.
“I am concerned we are not going to have high enough turnout numbers before Election Day. It's really important to have folks turn out early so we avoid long lines and that we also bring down people's risk of contracting COVID,” Cole said.
As of Saturday, in Jefferson County, 35% of registered voters had turned out early, 16% in-person and 19% through returned absentee ballots.
For perspective, Jefferson County saw 57% voter turnout in 2008, the year Barack Obama was elected president, and 45% in 2016, when Donald Trump was elected, but there was no early voting in those years.
"Overall, I think it's gone fairly smoothly. Probably didn't count on the eastern Jefferson County spot for early voting to be so popular, but there are four contested races out there, four House races," voter Virginia Woodward said.
Statewide, 28% of voters have cast a ballot. Democrats lead republicans in the number of absentee ballots returned, but more republicans have turned out in person.