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The [KY] Gubernatorial Runoff Law to be Part of the History Books, Law is Repealed Upon Governor’s Signature
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| Last Edited | RBH Apr 25, 2008 08:43pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Kentucky legislators finally dealt the gubernatorial runoff its final blow today after the House Bill 370 was passed by the House of Representatives. On April 2, 2008, the Senate State and Local Government Committee reformulated the bill to include a provision to repeal the runoff. The repeal was one of the top legislative priorities for Secretary of State Trey Grayson in the 2008 session of the General Assembly and was sponsored originally by Chairman of the Senate State and Local Government Committee, Damon Thayer (R-Georgetown), and Chairman of the House Elections, Constitutional Amendments, and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, Darryl Owens (D-Louisville).
Grayson, the State’s Chief Election Official, noted that a runoff is not only an expensive ordeal for county governments and taxpayers, but also rarely meets its desired effects. “Turnout in most runoff elections is abysmal which often leads parties to nominate a candidate with fewer votes than the top vote-getter in the original primary,” remarked Grayson. “This legislation is something that most, if not all legislators, agreed was bad public policy.”
The runoff provision was added as part of election reforms in 1992. The provision only applied to gubernatorial races and was applied if the top vote-getter in each party’s primary election received less than 40% of the vote. The provision was never used but came closest in 2007 when now-Governor Steve Beshear narrowly topped the cutoff by garnering 41% of the vote. |
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