EASY TO VOTE & HARD TO CHEAT BILL PASSES HOUSE 93 to 4

Frankfort, Ky. (February 26, 2021) – Secretary of State Michael Adams praised the Kentucky House for passing by a 93-4 vote House Bill 574, Kentucky’s most significant election reform legislation since 1992. No member spoke against the legislation, which now heads to the Senate for consideration.

“I’m grateful to House Leadership for bringing this bill to the floor just hours after it passed committee,” Adams said. “Hopefully this will give us momentum in the Senate.”

The bill’s provisions include:

• Creating three days of early in-person voting, including a Saturday, with no excuse required
• Enhancing the ability of state election officials to remove nonresident voters from the voter rolls
• Transitioning toward universal paper ballots, statewide
• Permitting counties to establish vote centers, where any voter in the county may vote regardless of precinct
• Keeping the online voter portal, so absentee balloting is fully transparent both to voters and election officials
• Expressly prohibiting and penalizing ballot harvesting
• Retaining the signature cure process, so absentee voters whose signatures have changed over time have a chance to prove identity and have their ballots counted