Source: http://www.brennancenter.org/print/7349
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 20:07:48+00:00

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This student voting guide explains the voting laws for the state of Kentucky.
This student voting guide explains the voting laws for the state of Kentucky. If you wish to vote from your school address, check the student voting guide for the state where you attend school. If you want to cast an absentee ballot in your home state, check the student voting guide for that state.
In Kentucky, you must register to vote prior to the fourth Tuesday before Election Day, unless that Tuesday falls on a holiday. Voter registration applications are available online here . Mailed applications must also be postmarked by that date. You can also register in-person at any state driver’s license office.
You can register to vote in the primary and general elections if you will be 18 by the time of the next general election. If you have been convicted of a felony, it may impact your ability to vote. If you think you might be affected, you should contact your local election officials  or visit the Department of Corrections  for more information.
At School. You can establish voting residency in Kentucky if you have a present intention to remain at your Kentucky school address for the time being, and if you intend to make it your principal home, though you need not intend to make this address your home permanently or indefinitely. Your residence for voter registration purposes is the place where your habitation is, in other words, wherever you sleep and live can be your residence even if it is not a residential address. Any other interpretation of the residency laws is unconstitutional.
Challenges to Residency. Students have the right to cast a ballot as a resident of Kentucky regardless of whether you pay in-state or out-of-state tuition. Any challenge made solely on the basis of your student or tuition status is invalid.
If your eligibility to vote is challenged at the polls by an official poll worker or a partisan challenger on the basis of residency, you will still be allowed to vote by regular ballot if you swear an oath that you are an eligible voter. However, if all four precinct election officers challenge you, you will have to vote by provisional ballot. The provisional ballot will be counted if the county board of elections finds that you are eligible after the election.
You will be asked to show an ID at the polls, unless you are personally known by poll workers. You can show a driver’s license from Kentucky or from another state, your Social Security card, a credit card, or any other ID card issued to you by the county in Kentucky you are voting in, as well as any photo ID with your signature. You may not use your student ID unless it has both your photo and signature. If you cannot show ID, you will have to cast a provisional ballot. The provisional ballot will be counted if the county board of elections finds that you are eligible after the election.
Anyone who is absent from their home county or unable to vote in-person may cast an in-person absentee ballot at their county clerk’s office during the 12 days prior to Election Day. If you wish to cast an absentee ballot by mail, you must have a legitimate reason for not being able to vote in person, and must apply for an absentee ballot from your county clerk’s office via e-mail, fax, mail, phone, or in person. Acceptable reasons include attending school outside the county where you are registered, employment that prevents you from being able to vote in person, illness, or temporarily residing out of state. Additionally, the county clerk must receive your absentee ballot application at least 7 days before Election Day. Finally, your completed absentee ballot must be received by the close of polls on Election Day. More information about absentee voting is available here .
 Ky. Rev. Stat. § 116.045(2).
 Ky. Rev. Stat. § 116.0452(1)(b).
 Ky. Rev. Stat. § 116.055.
 Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 116.035(1).
 Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 116.035(3).
 See Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 116.035(3).
 Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 116.025(6).
 See Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 116.025(4) and § 116.085(2)-(3).
 See Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 117.245.
 31 Ky. Admin. Regs. 6:020, § 4(3)(e).
 31 Ky. Admin. Regs. 6:020, § 4(13). See also Ky. Admin. Regs. 6:020 §6(2)-(3).
 Ky. Rev. Stat. § 117.227.
 Ky. Rev. Stat. § 117.227; see also 31 Ky. Admin. Regs. 4:010.
 31 Ky. Admin. Regs. 6:020, § 3(1).
 31 Ky. Admin. Regs. 6:020, § 4(13).
 Ky. Rev. Stat. § 117.085(1)(c).
 Ky. Rev. Stat. § 117.085(1)(a).
 Ky. Rev. Stat. § 117.085(1).
 Ky. Rev. Stat. § 117.086(1).

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