Gov. Andy Beshear on Wednesday offered new details about primary elections that were moved to late June and issued a new executive order on travel restrictions.
Preparing for primary elections
Beshear offered new details on the coming primary elections, urging voters to get ready to request absentee ballots and announcing help from the Kentucky National Guard.
Last month, Beshear and Secretary of State Michael Adams agreed to move the primary elections to June 23 and allow everyone to request absentee ballots. An online portal for all voters to request the ballots is being created.
The governor said National Guard leaders offered to help, and members will work as poll workers and keep polling places operating safely. The governor said he was proud of the guard for stepping in to help where in-person voting is necessary.
Beshear credited Kentucky National Guard Brig. Gen. Hal Lamberton with offering to help with the election.
“We literally are spread out across the entire state and I would venture we probably have soldiers or airmen who live in virtually all 120 counties,” Lamberton said. “So it quite simply is a common-sense solution for the issue.”
Travel restrictions
Beshear said his administration is changing its travel restrictions to better comply with judicial findings and more closely mirror the guidance of neighboring states.
The governor issued a new executive order that continues to ban anyone with a positive or presumptively positive case of COVID-19 from entering Kentucky, except as ordered for medical treatment. It also keeps in place the requirements of social distancing on public transportation.
Those traveling from out of state into Kentucky and staying are being asked to self-quarantine for 14 days.
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