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Graves, 11 other counties chosen for post-primary audits

Graves, 11 other counties chosen for post-primary audits
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By Kentucky News Network
May. 24, 2022 | FRANKFORT
By Kentucky News Network May. 24, 2022 | 06:00 PM | FRANKFORT
Graves County is among 12 Kentucky counties that have been randomly selected to undergo a post-primary election audit, as required by recent legislation.  
 
The audits will be conducted by the attorney general's criminal investigations department to determine if any irregularities took place during this month's primary.  
 
Attorney General Daniel Cameron said his office received 295 complaints during the primary season. By comparison, there were 330 complaints during the 2020 primary election.  
 
Cameron says there are three open criminal investigations involving this year's primary. While not providing details of the cases, Cameron says it's not unusual to have some criminal investigations following elections.  

During the 2022 legislative session, the General Assembly passed Senate Bill 216, which amended KRS 15.243 to expand the Attorney General's independent inquiry of potential election irregularities from not fewer than five percent of Kentucky counties to not fewer than 12 counties.  Today, these twelve counties were randomly selected in a public forum within twenty days of the 2022 primary election, as the statute requires.

State law prohibits counties from being audited in two consecutive elections. 

The other 11 counties to be audited are Nicholas, Monroe, Metcalfe, Jackson, Hopkins, Pendleton, Boyd, Madison, Powell, Rockcastle, and Grayson.
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