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But not all registered voters are expected to head to the polls. In Jefferson County, of the total number of registered voters, 35% have already been mailed an absentee ballot, according to the most recent data from county election officials.
And both counties are housing their sole polling locations inside significantly larger-than-normal sites, with Jefferson using the Kentucky Exposition Center, which is the size of four indoor football fields, and Fayette County using the University of Kentucky’s massive Kroger Field. The expo center will \"provide a layout of the almost 2,200 different ballot styles at the same time,\" Nore Ghibaudy, a county clerk spokesperson, said.
State Rep. Charles Booker, who is competing in the Senate Democratic primary invoked the state's history of disenfranchisement, before saying that state and election officials are doing \"the best they can\" under the circumstances.
\"So many folks in Kentucky have been disenfranchised. And I know we're dealing with COVID-19. I know the governor, secretary of state, the state board are trying to do the best they can but having one polling location in Jefferson County, with hundreds of thousands of people, it's just gonna naturally disenfranchise folks,\" Booker told ABC News' Senior Congressional Correspondent Mary Bruce in an interview Monday.
\"There have been steps taken for in-person voting and I've had shuttles going throughout the community, getting people to the polling location throughout the week and we're hopeful that the process will be smoother (Tuesday), that there won't be incredibly long lines,\" he added.
Similar to New York, results from some Kentucky counties, including Jefferson and Fayette, are expected to be delayed for at least a week, if not more, as a crush of absentee ballots overwhelm local election officials. Those counties won't even be releasing partial results until June 30, the extended deadline for all counties to report returns, Secretary of State Michael Adams announced in a statement late last week.
\"A clerk is always nervous about election day and this one is no different,\" Don Blevins Jr., the county clerk in Fayette County, told ABC News in an email. \"There will be lines, the question is will they be manageable or not.\"
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\"There are indirect indications that the numbers will be manageable but it is very difficult to predict,\" he continued. \"We have a record level of turnout already, far exceeding any presidential primary dating back to 2000. This, coupled with reasonable usage of our in-person by appointment site may indicate that most have already voted.\"
With the majority of votes on election day not being reported, candidates in some of the state's more high-profile races -- such as the Senate Democratic primary contest between Amy McGrath, a former Marine fighter pilot, and Booker, the youngest black state lawmaker in Kentucky -- are planning for a long, tense wait.
The real-time scrambles by election officials to adjust as the pandemic persists are laying the foundations for November's election. But any chaos could mark new cautionary tales at the national level.
\"There may be some lines, that’s not avoidable. That’s every election that we’ve ever had,\" Jared Dearing, the executive director of the Kentucky state board of elections said during a board meeting on Monday. \"But the hope here is that we've relieved as much of the stress and pressure off of the election day system.\"
ABC News' Meg Cunningham and Benjamin Siegel contributed to this report.
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