With millions of Americans taking to the polls, there were just over 50 reports that trickled into the Kentucky’s voter fraud complaint board regarding a myriad of issues, such as illegal electioneering as well as simple voter procedural questions. Besides some minor glitches in certain precincts, things ran smoother than normal Fayette County Clerk Don Blevins Jr. told Kentucky.com.
“Sort of normal stuff, with a couple of precincts late getting started because machines were hooked up incorrectly, but after 45 minutes in, everything was up,” Blevins said. “If anything it’s been calmer than usual.”
In total, there were only 52 total calls of various forms to the voter fraud hotline from 27 counties throughout the State spread among the 3.2 million registered Kentucky voters.
Voters called in with complaints of election officials, a few reports of electioneering and disrupting polls, as well as with questions on absentee ballots and voter procedure.
Electioneering, the act of trying to persuade votes towards a specific election campaign, is illegal within 100 feet of polling stations.
Citizens in Kentucky are encouraged to call the State Attorney General’s hotline at 1-800-328-8683 to report any election fraud.
At the top of Kentucky’s general election was the hotly contested governor’s race that saw Democrat Jack Conway defeated by Republican Matt Bevin in a pivotal off-year election. Bevin, a Tea Party Republican, will succeed Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear, who could not seek re-election because of term limits.
Their campaigns turned into a referendum on President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, the Affordable Care Act, and Bevin’s victory could be seen as a test before the larger national election in 2016.
Outgoing Gov. Steve Beshear used an executive order to expand the state’s Medicaid program to cover an additional 400,000 Kentucky residents and create a health exchange, where more than 100,000 people have purchased discounted health plans with the help of federal subsidies.
Bevin, a Louisville businessman, has promised to scale back the expansion and eliminate the exchange, saying taxpayers can’t afford it.
The Associated Press contributed to this story
Voter fraud is not new. The 2012 election cycle was fraught with fraud all over the United States, especially in the swing states, and nothing has been or will be done about it.
Though I agree that we’ve had voter fraud for many years I strongly feel an immediate stop should be put to it. ONE FRAUDLANT VOTE AND THERE SHOULD BE AN IMMEDIATE RECOUNT. If there’s only one, how many slipped by without being caught? And let’s face it. It appears that most of the states where this happens are all blue states.
There are 1.27 Billion people in India. 400 million earn less than $1.25 a day. Yet, every voter in India has a Picture voter ID . Democrats would call this voter suppression, brilliant aren’t they? Let’s hope this reality will sink in to every American across this country of ours. The only possible reason that the Democrats do not want people to have a picture ID’s to vote is so illegal aliens can vote.