Polling Places

People with disabilities have the right, like other registered voters, to cast their ballots at polling places that are accessible to them. This includes, but is not limited to, people physically accessing their polling places in order to vote independently and privately. You may have been notified that your polling place has been moved or noticed some changes when you voted in the May Primary. These changes have happened for Kentucky to be in compliance with federal laws regarding voter access.

Voters from several Boyle County precincts will cast ballots at a new location Tuesday - a move aimed at resolving parking problems and other issues - but low turnout may eliminate waiting at most polling places. Three precincts that voted last November at the Boyle County Fire Department headquarters on Lebanon Road - Lexington Avenue Baptist Church, Streamland and Shakertown Road - will move to the American Legion Post 46 at 45 Spears Lane. The Boyle County High School, Millennium Park and Bluegrass Road precincts will remain at the fire department headquarters.

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Dear Editor, Protecting the integrity of voting is important, but abolishing the neighborhood polling places seems motivated by a (partisan?) desire to suppress the vote, and particularly the votes by older citizens. The right to vote is fundamental, and local governments should not make rules that put an unnecessary burden on it. If they do, courts should strike them down. If I am mistaken in my judgment, please do a better job of justifying the abolishment of neighborhood polling places.

Dear Editor, Concerning the vote that was taken to consolidate the polling places in Boyle County, most government entities, private corporations, state governments as well as the U.S. Congress conduct their meetings using Roberts Rules of Order. In reviewing the rule on who can vote, I find that the chairman or moderator of a meeting does not vote except to make or break a tie vote. This would mean that all members that voted in a meeting could only have a total of one vote each on any motion.

Here are the reasons Boyle County Clerk Denise B. Curtsinger and the Board of Elections decided to consolidate polling places: Delivery and pickup of Election Day supplies and machines. When federal mandates required polling places be handicapped accessible, the clerk's office put 500 miles on five vehicles picking up and delivering extra equipment. New disabled-accessible voting machines required extra technical assistance. Technicians had to go to almost every precinct during the May primary to assist precinct officers.

(To view the proposed poll map, click here.) Boyle County Republicans and Democrats are asking the Board of Elections to reconsider a decision consolidating the county's 18 polling places into four. The plan now calls for voters who live: in Danville or the east end of the county to vote at Danville Convention Center. in Junction City to vote at Junction City First Baptist Church. in the west end of the county to vote at Perryville Baptist Church.

Deciding how to vote is hard enough, but casting a vote can be impossible for people with disabilities. Some area polling places don't have enough handicapped parking, or handrails. Others have heavy doors. Each county is making temporary changes, like using more signing, and permanent changes, such as blacktopping or building ramps, so that every polling place is accessible for the disabled. Voting machines can be another hurdle. Kentucky is using federal money to buy machines equipped with audio, Braille and the capability to use a blow tube to press the buttons.

Boyle County Clerk Denise Curtsinger and the Board of Elections have taken a lot of heat over the consolidation of polling places. It's time to take some more. Last November, over the objections of a vocal electorate, the board approved Curtsinger's plan to reduce 18 polling places to five. Voting machines for most precincts ended up at the convention center, while voters in western Boyle County - Junction City, Perryville, Parksville and Mitchellsburg - got to stay at home, so to speak.

Many people feel, with the current national push to get more voters to the polls and making it easier to vote, Boyle County seems to be "swimming upstream. " The changes proposed in our voting places will make it more difficult for many of our voters. While the chair of the Boyle County Board of Elections has declared the consolidation of 17 precinct polling places will make it more convenient for the office workers, machine technicians and some of the voters (naming Bluegrass residents, in particular)

Voters from several Boyle County precincts will cast ballots at a new location Tuesday - a move aimed at resolving parking problems and other issues - but low turnout may eliminate waiting at most polling places. Three precincts that voted last November at the Boyle County Fire Department headquarters on Lebanon Road - Lexington Avenue Baptist Church, Streamland and Shakertown Road - will move to the American Legion Post 46 at 45 Spears Lane. The Boyle County High School, Millennium Park and Bluegrass Road precincts will remain at the fire department headquarters.

People with disabilities have the right, like other registered voters, to cast their ballots at polling places that are accessible to them. This includes, but is not limited to, people physically accessing their polling places in order to vote independently and privately. You may have been notified that your polling place has been moved or noticed some changes when you voted in the May Primary. These changes have happened for Kentucky to be in compliance with federal laws regarding voter access.

Clark County was among six counties chosen in a random drawing Thursday afternoon for an audit by the state Office of the Attorney General to determine whether there were any potential irregularities that may have occurred during the primary election on Tuesday, May 17. The other counties are: Wolfe, Boyd, Muhlenberg, Nelson and Estill. “These audits supplement the work our investigators and prosecutors did on the ground leading up to the primary election, and the process, as defined by Kentucky law, will ensure that voters in every corner of our commonwealth encounter procedures at polling places that are fair and equitable,” Attorney General Jack Conway said in a statement released Wednesday.

STANFORD - It appears Stanford residents will get the chance to give a thumbs up or thumbs down to alcohol sales after a petition to put the question on the ballot was turned in Thursday afternoon. Lincoln County Clerk Sonny Spoonamore said his office received a petition containing about 350 names, more than the 295 signatures needed to put the alcohol question to a vote of the people. Spoonamore said he expects by today to verify that the signatures belong to registered voters who live within the city limits and that the target date for a special election is Oct. 6. Stanford attorney Jeff Ralston turned in the petition, which does not have any names of individuals or organizations attached to it as sponsors, Spoonamore said.

Dr. Richard Hempel has followed the same routine every Election Day since he moved to Danville 18 years ago. He completes his daily early morning jog at the voting booth. But today was anything but routine for the Danville physician. "Usually I just run into the voting station and get in a short line, if there is a line, and cast my vote, all in a matter of just a few minutes," he said. "This morning, I find myself outside the voting station in a long, long line that's way out into the parking lot. " Hempel didn't seem to mind the wait, though.

Finally, the end is in sight. With the protracted and hard-fought 2008 general election just hours away, local officials are readying polling places, and Clark County voters are preparing to cast ballots for their preferred candidates. Workers were out early this morning distributing voting machines to precincts for an election that is expected to draw record-breaking crowds. Clark County Clerk Anita Jones is predicting an 80 percent turnout on Tuesday. Jones said by Friday her office was expecting more than 900 absentee ballots, which serves as a gauge for turnout on Election Day. "That's almost twice as many as we have had in the past," she said.

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Boyle County voters in Danville will have to adjust to new polling places again in Tuesday's primary, but steps have been taken to address other glitches that plagued last November's general election. Instead of one centralized place, the Danville Convention Center, city voters will cast their ballots at one of four new spots: the Salvation Army gym; Inter-County Energy; Centenary Life Center and First Christian Church. Those locations were chosen after a deal to use the Convention Center fell through.

Boyle County Clerk Denise Curtsinger and the Board of Elections have taken a lot of heat over the consolidation of polling places. It's time to take some more. Last November, over the objections of a vocal electorate, the board approved Curtsinger's plan to reduce 18 polling places to five. Voting machines for most precincts ended up at the convention center, while voters in western Boyle County - Junction City, Perryville, Parksville and Mitchellsburg - got to stay at home, so to speak.