Kentucky’s primary election less than a week away

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — With less than a week until Kentucky’s primary election, civic groups like the Louisville League of Women Voters are encouraging everyone to get out and vote.

Ahead of this year’s primary, the league has hosted several candidate forums in Louisville. They covered both Metro Council and state office races.

It’s one way the nonpartisan organization has worked to inform voters about the upcoming election.

“We don’t support parties,” said Dee Pregliasco, president of the Louisville League of Women Voters. “We don’t support candidates. Just trying to sort of raise people’s awareness of voting.”

Recently volunteers also went door to door in parts of the county to inform people of the primary.

Pregliasco highlighted the importance of being an informed voter and said just one vote can still make a difference.

“One of our former governors won his primary by 87 votes; that’s not a lot of votes,” Pregliasco said. “So it’s really, really important.”

Secretary of State Michael Adams, R-Ky., said he predicted low voter turnout, around 10-15%. Still, he encouraged everyone to get out and do their civic duty.

“You have people who say, ‘Well, I don’t want to go, and I don’t have time to do all that,’” Pregliasco said. “But if you ask them what they care about, they sometimes can give you a long list, and all of those things are affected by who we put into office.”

This year, the entire state House of Representatives and half of the state Senate are up for reelection. Several races only have candidates from one party, meaning whoever wins May 21 will punch their ticket to Frankfort.