Early voter turnout in Kentucky breaks records for the second day in a row

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) – Secretary of State Michael Adams predicted a “massive” voter turnout overall after 130,695 voters in Kentucky requested absentee ballots.

He explained that mail-in votes generally make up 2-4% of all ballots cast.

Adams urged people to vote early, writing in a social media post: “For goodness sake, vote early.”

Of the more than 130,000 absentee votes requested, 51% were requested by registered Democrats, 40% by registered Republicans and the remaining 9% by Independents/Others.

In person, no excuses, early voting in Kentucky began Thursday.

Adams said a record 225,696 people participated on the first day of early voting. 121,081 were registered Republicans (53.7%), 89,782 were registered Democrats (39.8%) and 14,833 were registered Independents/Other (6.5%).

For comparison, Adams shared that 57,154 people voted on the first day of early voting in 2020. On the first day of 2022, 81,961 people voted.

On Friday, Kentuckians broke the record again when 229,944 people voted early.

According to Adams, 455,640 people voted early in the first two days of early voting. Of those, 241,553 (53%) were registered Republicans, 183,251 (40.2%) were registered Democrats and 30,836 (6.8%) were Independents/Other.

According to the state's voter registration data, 46.8% of Kentucky voters are registered Republicans, 42.5% are registered Democrats and 10.7% are registered Independents/Other.

More information about when and where you can vote can be found here.

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