Twelve counties have been selected for the post primary election inquiry. Kentucky law requires the office of the Attorney General to carry out these inquiries to check for any potential election violations.
Eight of the twelve counties are in the central or eastern part of the commonwealth. At the press conference where the counties were selected, Greg Wolf, commissioner of the Department for Criminal Investigations, said there are many moving parts in these inquiries.
“We assign detectives to each of these counties, they will get all of the election records from the clerk’s office. It is a lot of talking to the county board of elections, county officials, poll workers to make sure everything was conducted properly and there weren’t any issues.”
During the press conference where the counties were selected, Wolf said this process usually does not find many problems.
“I think, most of the time what it does is, restores confidence or enforces the confidence, most of these clerks are doing an excellent job. Most of the time our report is “everything’s good” you know the majority of the time it’s just reenforcing what the clerks are already doing.”
After the investigations are complete, the A-G’s office will take the findings to grand juries and chief circuit judges in each selected county.
The 12 selected counties are: Boyd, Boyle, Bracken, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland, Harrison, Hopkins, Madison, Nelson, Owsley, and Trigg Counties
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