Less Than One Week to Register to Vote in Nov. 8 General Election

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (WTVQ) – The deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 8 general election is less than one week away.

“I am counting on Kentuckians to do their duty and vote on Nov. 8,” Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes said during a stop at Elizabethtown Community & Technical College. “But you have to be registered. With GoVoteKY.com we are helping to give a voice to even more Kentuckians at the ballot box. With your help, we’ve surpassed our goal with more than 60,000 Kentuckians registering or update their registration online. Let’s make that number even bigger before the Oct. 11 deadline.”

Grimes asked attendees to help get out the vote among their friends and family. She said the Commonwealth’s low voter turnout trends must be reversed. In the 2015 general election, only 30.6% of registered Kentuckians cast ballots statewide. In May’s primary election, just 20% of registered voters participated.

“‘We the people’ – those are the first three words in our Constitution. They literally mean that it’s up to us to make change and to ‘form a more perfect union.’ That starts at the ballot box. Let’s get more people to the polls on Nov. 8,” Grimes said.

Grimes has been engaged in a yearlong tour to get more Kentuckians registered to vote and to tout the Kentucky’s new one-stop election portal, GoVoteKY.com. She has made nearly 20 officials stops on her tour at Kentucky colleges and universities and has conducted numerous meetings with civic and community organizations.

The deadline to register for the Nov. 8 general election is Oct. 11.