Voters in Kentucky go to the polls three weeks from Tuesday.They’ll be deciding the governor’s race between Andy Beshear and Daniel Cameron.As it was two years ago, “Election Integrity” is likely to be a topic of discussion.A C-Span survey found fewer than half of Americans have high confidence votes are counted correctly. In 2022, then-president Trump didn’t accept defeat and claimed the election included rigged voting machines, stuffed ballot boxes and other instances of voter fraud.However, according to the Jefferson County Clerk’s Office in Louisville, many conspiracy theories about how votes could be compromised simply can’t happen, including attacks on voting machines from outside hackers.”In no instance are any of our election equipment machines tied to the internet,” said Erran Huber, director of public relations for the Jefferson County clerk.Huber addressed the internet rumor and others during a gathering of the League of Woman Voters on Monday night. “We’d rather wait a couple of extra hours to make sure the electronic results we have tabulated are not transmitted over the internet and are instead transmitted in a safe and secure fashion rather than risk it. There are all kinds of bad actors out there. We don’t want to put anybody’s vote at risk,” Huber said.Another way some folks believe an election could be stolen involves mail-in ballots, in particular, ballot stuffing.Huber said even if someone got their hands on a number of ballots, marked them for a certain candidate and then tried to put them all into one box, it wouldn’t happen.Huber says all ballot boxes are in locations where they are closely monitored by election personnel and by other security measures he declined to reveal.”We do not have ballot boxes just sitting out there in the open, on the street, like a mailbox or something where people can drop anything, including false ballots. That’s not what’s happening in this case,” Huber said.Huber added there are multiple layers of security to make sure votes are protected, including monitoring of the election process in Jefferson County by the Department of Homeland Security.Election day in Kentucky is Nov. 7.
Voters in Kentucky go to the polls three weeks from Tuesday.
They’ll be deciding the governor’s race between Andy Beshear and Daniel Cameron.
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As it was two years ago, “Election Integrity” is likely to be a topic of discussion.
A C-Span survey found fewer than half of Americans have high confidence votes are counted correctly.
In 2022, then-president Trump didn’t accept defeat and claimed the election included rigged voting machines, stuffed ballot boxes and other instances of voter fraud.
However, according to the Jefferson County Clerk’s Office in Louisville, many conspiracy theories about how votes could be compromised simply can’t happen, including attacks on voting machines from outside hackers.
“In no instance are any of our election equipment machines tied to the internet,” said Erran Huber, director of public relations for the Jefferson County clerk.
Huber addressed the internet rumor and others during a gathering of the League of Woman Voters on Monday night.
“We’d rather wait a couple of extra hours to make sure the electronic results we have tabulated are not transmitted over the internet and are instead transmitted in a safe and secure fashion rather than risk it. There are all kinds of bad actors out there. We don’t want to put anybody’s vote at risk,” Huber said.
Another way some folks believe an election could be stolen involves mail-in ballots, in particular, ballot stuffing.
Huber said even if someone got their hands on a number of ballots, marked them for a certain candidate and then tried to put them all into one box, it wouldn’t happen.
Huber says all ballot boxes are in locations where they are closely monitored by election personnel and by other security measures he declined to reveal.
“We do not have ballot boxes just sitting out there in the open, on the street, like a mailbox or something where people can drop anything, including false ballots. That’s not what’s happening in this case,” Huber said.
Huber added there are multiple layers of security to make sure votes are protected, including monitoring of the election process in Jefferson County by the Department of Homeland Security.
Election day in Kentucky is Nov. 7.
