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Kentucky Voter Turnout Beats National Average
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Voter turnout across the commonwealth’s 120 counties ranged from 44 to 67 percent.
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Voter turnout across the commonwealth’s 120 counties ranged from 44 to 67 percent.
Kentucky turned a deeper shade of red on Election Day. Our presidential election map breaks down the vote tally in each county.
For all of the ways the 2016 presidential election was extraordinary – particularly Donald Trump’s repeated assertion that the vote was being “rigged” – the actual balloting across the country on Tuesday was largely without serious incident.
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Kentucky is one of three states with a permanent voting ban for felons. More than 1 in 4 black people of voting age in Kentucky are barred from the polls, the highest disenfranchisement rate in the nation.