Kentucky making election plans amid ongoing virus outbreak

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Republican secretary of state says he’ll press to make more polling places available and count ballots faster in the November general election than in last month’s primary. Secretary of State Michael Adams told lawmakers Tuesday that mail-in absentee and early in-person voting worked well in the state’s unprecedented June primary. He says he hopes to make recommendations to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear in early August on plans for conducting the general election amid the coronavirus pandemic. Adams says it would be difficult to handle absentee ballots the same way it did during the primaries “in all respects.”