Kentucky is seeing so many people registering to vote that county clerks are using additional staff or working longer hours to accommodate the increase as the deadline nears.
A statement from Secretary of State Trey Grayson on Friday said the state set a record for voter registrations on Sept. 15 and would set another high mark after registration closes out Oct. 6 for the Nov. 4 general election.
Grayson said some county election officials have gone to 12-hour days or hired temporary workers to keep up with the influx of voter registrations. The state Board of Elections is receiving hundreds of voter registration cards daily.
At the mid-September reporting date, there were 2,894,299 registered voters in Kentucky. Of those, 1,656,242 were Democrats and 1,049,459 were Republican.
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