Operation Voter MADNESS Continues
Saturday, October 4th at 5pm:
We're now 55 hours into Operation Voter MADNESS, our 83-hour voter registration marathon across the state. Our members in Lexington and Louisville stayed up all hours of the night, including a crew of ten who canvassed downtown Lexington last night around midnight, and others who were out in force at 6am at the Lexington Transit Center. We just finished out big Funky Farm festival in Lexington and the the Concert for The Commonwealth will cap off the Lexington events in a few hours.
Meanwhile, our Louisville crew still has a relentless schedule in front of them, with continuous voter registration until Sunday evening. If you're in Louisville, come out and lend them a hand!
We have more stories and pictures to come, but here are some pictures taken this morning at the Lexington Farmer's Market.
RECORD NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS IN KY
And it shows:
Record number of registered voters in Ky.
http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/544131.html
The Associated Press
FRANKFORT, KY. -- So many people are registering to vote in Kentucky that county clerks are using additional staff or working longer hours to accommodate the increase as the deadline nears.
A statement from Secretary of State Trey Grayson on Friday said the state set a record for voter registrations on Sept. 15 and would set another high mark after registration closes out Oct. 6 for the Nov. 4 general election.
Grayson said some county election officials have gone to 12-hour days or hired temporary workers to keep up with the influx of voter registrations.
The state Board of Elections is receiving hundreds of voter registration cards daily.
At the mid-September reporting date, there were 2,894,299 registered voters in Kentucky. Of those, 1,656,242 were Democrats and 1,049,459 were Republican.