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Reported more than 225,000 ballots by 3:45 p.m. and continued counting write-in ballots

More than 225,000 Jefferson County voters had cast ballots by 3:45 p.m. on Election Day, about 38% of the county's registered voters, the Jefferson County Clerk's Office said. Polls closed at 6 p.m. in Kentucky and Indiana.

Updated 4 days ago

Kentucky election officials refused to let federal monitors enter polling sites

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Told the DOJ its monitors could not enter Louisville polling places and said they had to stay outside the 100-foot boundary on Nov. 3.

Federal election monitors worked Kentucky's Nov. 3 election from outside a 100-foot boundary at polling places in Louisville and Lexington, after local and state officials refused them entry. Jefferson County Clerk David Yates said about a dozen Justice Department employees were expected in Louisville as civil monitors, not law enforcement. His office told the DOJ that Kentucky law did not authorize routine federal monitoring inside polls.

Updated Nov 1