Secretary of State Michael Adams announced that 14,502 Kentuckians registered to vote in July.
In the same month, 5,675 were removed from the rolls – 3,659 deceased voters, 817 felony convicts, 562 duplicate registrations, 494 who moved out of state, 101 who voluntarily de-registered, and 42 adjudged mentally incompetent.Secretary Adams says, “Kentuckians are signing up to vote in big numbers, because they trust the integrity of our elections.”
While the presidential election appeared to motivate the surge in registration, the continued decline in Democratic registrations suggests that the boost did not result from excitement about the Democratic Party’s change of presidential candidate.
Republican registrants account for 46 percent of the electorate, and Democratic registrants make up 43 percent of the electorate. There are 370,513 voters registered as Independent or under other political affiliations, which is 11 percent of the electorate.