Kentucky lawmakers passed an election reform bill on Monday night with wide 91-3 bipartisan support to expand voting access and strengthen election security protections. “My campaign slogan was ‘make it easy to vote and hard to cheat,’ and this bill does both,” Republican Secretary of State Michael Adams told Courier-Journal. The bill has been delivered to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and awaits his signature to become law. “Running clean elections should not be a partisan issue,” Adams said in a statement. “I hope Governor Beshear will tune out the extremists in his party and sign this commonsense legislation.” The bill, HB 574 (pdf), allows three days of in-person early voting—including a Saturday—before Election Day. It allows people to “cure” or fix any rejected absentee ballots. Republican lawmakers had turned down proposals for weeks of early in-person voting, eventually accepting three days of in-person early voting as a compromise with Democrats. The bill …
Kentucky Lawmakers Pass ‘Easy to Vote, Hard to Cheat’ Election Reform Bill
March 31, 2021
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