Kentuckians won’t know who won their local city council primary or the winner of the Democratic U.S. Senate primary that’s been heating up when they go to bed Tuesday night.
Christian County Elections Coordinator Melinda Humphries said over 4,300 people had voted absentee as of Monday morning. Any mail-in absentee ballot postmarked Tuesday or earlier will be counted, meaning local results won’t be posted online until June 30.
Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams issued his own statement, saying “Under normal circumstances, the State Board of Elections receives and reports all preliminary election results on election night. However, because we, like other states voting during the pandemic, have accommodated voters by letting them mail ballots on election day, not every vote will be in hand by election night. Moreover, many counties, including our two biggest, have chosen to withhold even partial results until June 30, the extended deadline for all counties to report returns to the Secretary of State.”
Secretary Adams says his office will provide any partial county results they receive on election night, but neither his office nor the State Board of Elections will be able to offer the usual online election night reporting.
He says complete but unofficial results must be reported to the secretary of state by 6 p.m. local time on June 30, and will be made available to the public at that time.