From Forward Kentucky: One-word change makes mail-in voting possible
Berry Craig
By BRUCE MAPLES
Buried in a bill passed by the General Assembly on its way out the door is a single word added to a single Kentucky Revised Statute. The addition of that one word makes it possible for mail-in voting to happen in Kentucky.
House Bill 351 was passed by the legislature on April 1, the day they met to pass the budget. It is the revenue bill that accompanies the budget, and contains 244 pages of additions and deletions to the tax laws and other revenue-related statutes.
But on page 242, in the midst of an existing section of statutes related to the governor’s executive powers, they added the word “manner.” And that one word makes a huge difference.