November 5, 2024 • 6 mins
It's election day! What do you need to know? Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams joins Tony Cruise w/the latest.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning. I'm Toty Cruz along with the Secretary of
State Michael Adams. Good morning, Michael, how are you.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good morning, Great to be back.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Thanks, well, it's great to have you back. Let's go
through the basics right now. Six am, the poll the
polls opened up six pm. Of the closings, what else
do you want people to know real quickly? And then
I got a bunch of questions.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Okay, well, number one, bring your photo ID to vote.
We do require that under my administration. Any federal, state,
or local government issued photo ID or a college or
trade school ID will work. You can find your voting
location at go vote dot ky dot gup. It may
be different from what it was during the early voting.
(00:42):
We have different locations, usually more locations on Tuesday, and
you can find your sample ballot also at go vote
dot ky dot gup.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Make sure you do your homework.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
There's a lot of stuff on the ballot that's not President,
a lot of other offices, especially local. Many of them
are nonpartisans, so if you fill in the straight ticket bubble,
you won't catch those.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Also have the two custutional amendments.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, that's exactly right. So when does When does Kentucky
start counting the absentine slash military and oversea ballots? Do
you start that within the week or earlier or how
does that work?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, so, technically we don't tabulate them until the polls close,
but we do preprocess them.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Here's what that means.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
If you vote that assentee ballot, you mail that in
or you drop it in the drop locks, the county
clerk gets it, and then once it's received, the county
clerk's office will check the signature on the outer envelope
and make sure it's the signature of that voter. And
then we'll open that outer envelope and separate the inner
(01:45):
envelope which has a ballot in it. And the inner
envelope has no markings on it to tell us who
you are, So that's a that's a naked envelope.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It's put into a bim with other ones just like it.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
That way, it's blind when we process those, we don't
know whose vote is who's But we don't actually process
those absentee ballots until eight am on election day, and
that gives us the day to go ahead and run
those through the ballot scanner. And so once the polls
close at six, The first numbers are going to see
posted are going to be the absentees because those are already.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
At the county clerk's office.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It takes, you know, thirty forty five minutes for the
poll workers to drive to the county Clerk's office around
the counties with the numbers from the election day voting.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
So the first numbers you'll see to night will be
the absentees.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Okay, when do all of the votes have to be tabulated?
Is it midnight tonight or do you have grace in
case you know, we get a record a crowd of
voters today.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Well, technically, under state law, the county clerks have until
the end of the week until Friday to get those
to my office. But as a practical matter, nobody wants
to sit on that stuff. No, everyone's ready to have
the election over with, So as a practical matter, we
get everything in on action night.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Is there a time limit in the voting booth because
to your point, you know, maybe people haven't made up
their minds they need to look at that ballot prior
to going in to voting. If there is, I was
just curious about that.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, there is a state law it's four minutes, and
that's plenty of time if you know what you're doing,
if you've made your decision, you've.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Got plenty of time to fill in the little bubbles.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It took me, I don't know, maybe a minute and
a half tops to vote the other day because.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I knew what I was going to vote on.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
This is not the time to make your decision when
you're standing there and there's a line behind you. Make
your decision before you get your ballid. Take your time,
make your decisions thoughtfully. But if we have people hawking
the voting booths.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
We're going to have lines. We had that in twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We had rude people who just camped out in the
voting booth for twenty minutes researching the conscial amendments at
the time, and that's why we had some lines in
some counties.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
In Laurel County, there was an issue with a person
that posted a video that appeared that the person couldn't
get the touch screen to allow her to vote for
President Trump. What was that issue about and is that
cleaned up?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So to speak?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well, we had a voter who didn't follow the posted
instructions for how to operate a ballot marketing device? Would
you not have voting missions in Kentucky? I got rid
of voting missions in Kentucky. We vote on paper ballots.
Most voters vote on a hand marked paper ballot. We
do have a few counties that have ballot marking devices.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
They looked like.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Voting machines, but they're not. They're printers for Americans with
Disability Act reasons. We have to have those available for
voters in case they can't use a pen, in case
they have an impediment. We had a voter who filmed
and posted that she couldn't get it to work right.
What she did include in her video that went viral
(04:54):
and got nineteen million views as a Friday, is that
she actually was.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Able to vote the way she wanted.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
She confirmed that her ballot was accurate and was cast
for the person she wanted to vote for for president,
and that it was counted and unfortunately didn't make it
into her video.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah. Well, there's a lot of people telling how that works. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
CONTI is about social media is not about facts.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It's about eyeballs. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And so these anonymous Twitter accounts have millions of followers
and they make a bunch of hay and they try
to get people to doubt each other in a doubt
the election process.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It's just garbage.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, we've seen a lot of things like the things
in Pennsylvania going on in Virginia, and you know, basically
the process is working.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Uhha.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
We found this, We found that and the only kind
of thing I'm saying, no, that's good because now we're
finding that the process is working. When we look and
take a relook at how these votes are tabulated.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Here's a good indicator for whether someone's telling the truth.
Do they post on social media or do they call
me or the attorney general or the county clerk, Because
if they're talking to us, that means the writing in
good faith. If they're posting something on social media, it
needs it's all about them.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Well said Michael Adams, Secretary of State. Salute and best wishes,
and we thought that I thank the poll workers the
other day for doing this service for us and appreciate
you as well.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Thank you, Michael, Thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Secretary of State. Michael Adams here on news radio a Porty
Wha Sports coming up with Scott Fitzgeral
Good morning. I'm Toty Cruz along with the Secretary of
State Michael Adams. Good morning, Michael, how are you.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Good morning, Great to be back.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Thanks, well, it's great to have you back. Let's go
through the basics right now. Six am, the poll the
polls opened up six pm. Of the closings, what else
do you want people to know real quickly? And then
I got a bunch of questions.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Okay, well, number one, bring your photo ID to vote.
We do require that under my administration. Any federal, state,
or local government issued photo ID or a college or
trade school ID will work. You can find your voting
location at go vote dot ky dot gup. It may
be different from what it was during the early voting.
(00:42):
We have different locations, usually more locations on Tuesday, and
you can find your sample ballot also at go vote
dot ky dot gup.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Make sure you do your homework.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
There's a lot of stuff on the ballot that's not President,
a lot of other offices, especially local. Many of them
are nonpartisans, so if you fill in the straight ticket bubble,
you won't catch those.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Also have the two custutional amendments.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, that's exactly right. So when does When does Kentucky
start counting the absentine slash military and oversea ballots? Do
you start that within the week or earlier or how
does that work?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, so, technically we don't tabulate them until the polls close,
but we do preprocess them.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Here's what that means.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
If you vote that assentee ballot, you mail that in
or you drop it in the drop locks, the county
clerk gets it, and then once it's received, the county
clerk's office will check the signature on the outer envelope
and make sure it's the signature of that voter. And
then we'll open that outer envelope and separate the inner
(01:45):
envelope which has a ballot in it. And the inner
envelope has no markings on it to tell us who
you are, So that's a that's a naked envelope.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It's put into a bim with other ones just like it.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
That way, it's blind when we process those, we don't
know whose vote is who's But we don't actually process
those absentee ballots until eight am on election day, and
that gives us the day to go ahead and run
those through the ballot scanner. And so once the polls
close at six, The first numbers are going to see
posted are going to be the absentees because those are already.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
At the county clerk's office.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It takes, you know, thirty forty five minutes for the
poll workers to drive to the county Clerk's office around
the counties with the numbers from the election day voting.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
So the first numbers you'll see to night will be
the absentees.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Okay, when do all of the votes have to be tabulated?
Is it midnight tonight or do you have grace in
case you know, we get a record a crowd of
voters today.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Well, technically, under state law, the county clerks have until
the end of the week until Friday to get those
to my office. But as a practical matter, nobody wants
to sit on that stuff. No, everyone's ready to have
the election over with, So as a practical matter, we
get everything in on action night.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Is there a time limit in the voting booth because
to your point, you know, maybe people haven't made up
their minds they need to look at that ballot prior
to going in to voting. If there is, I was
just curious about that.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, there is a state law it's four minutes, and
that's plenty of time if you know what you're doing,
if you've made your decision, you've.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Got plenty of time to fill in the little bubbles.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It took me, I don't know, maybe a minute and
a half tops to vote the other day because.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I knew what I was going to vote on.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
This is not the time to make your decision when
you're standing there and there's a line behind you. Make
your decision before you get your ballid. Take your time,
make your decisions thoughtfully. But if we have people hawking
the voting booths.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
We're going to have lines. We had that in twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We had rude people who just camped out in the
voting booth for twenty minutes researching the conscial amendments at
the time, and that's why we had some lines in
some counties.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
In Laurel County, there was an issue with a person
that posted a video that appeared that the person couldn't
get the touch screen to allow her to vote for
President Trump. What was that issue about and is that
cleaned up?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So to speak?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well, we had a voter who didn't follow the posted
instructions for how to operate a ballot marketing device? Would
you not have voting missions in Kentucky? I got rid
of voting missions in Kentucky. We vote on paper ballots.
Most voters vote on a hand marked paper ballot. We
do have a few counties that have ballot marking devices.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
They looked like.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Voting machines, but they're not. They're printers for Americans with
Disability Act reasons. We have to have those available for
voters in case they can't use a pen, in case
they have an impediment. We had a voter who filmed
and posted that she couldn't get it to work right.
What she did include in her video that went viral
(04:54):
and got nineteen million views as a Friday, is that
she actually was.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Able to vote the way she wanted.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
She confirmed that her ballot was accurate and was cast
for the person she wanted to vote for for president,
and that it was counted and unfortunately didn't make it
into her video.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah. Well, there's a lot of people telling how that works. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
CONTI is about social media is not about facts.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It's about eyeballs. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And so these anonymous Twitter accounts have millions of followers
and they make a bunch of hay and they try
to get people to doubt each other in a doubt
the election process.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It's just garbage.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, we've seen a lot of things like the things
in Pennsylvania going on in Virginia, and you know, basically
the process is working.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Uhha.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
We found this, We found that and the only kind
of thing I'm saying, no, that's good because now we're
finding that the process is working. When we look and
take a relook at how these votes are tabulated.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Here's a good indicator for whether someone's telling the truth.
Do they post on social media or do they call
me or the attorney general or the county clerk, Because
if they're talking to us, that means the writing in
good faith. If they're posting something on social media, it
needs it's all about them.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Well said Michael Adams, Secretary of State. Salute and best wishes,
and we thought that I thank the poll workers the
other day for doing this service for us and appreciate
you as well.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Thank you, Michael, Thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Secretary of State. Michael Adams here on news radio a Porty
Wha Sports coming up with Scott Fitzgeral
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