Today, I obtained a dismissal of Amy McGrath for Senate’s lawsuit that challenged the regulation implementing my bipartisan agreement with Governor Beshear, and that sought to have a court declare our “current system of absentee voting” unconstitutional. Here's my statement:
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“The McGrath campaign attempted to rewrite, at the last minute, election rules that were agreed to long ago by the Governor and me in bipartisan fashion. Specifically, the McGrath sued to: •be able to perform the governmental function of ‘complet[ing] ballot requests over the
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phone, just as Clerks are able to do,’ a conflict of interest that would be an invitation to election fraud. •extend the ballot request deadline to just two business days before the election, which would not allow time for ballots to be timely delivered to voters and then
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returned – thus confusing and disenfranchising voters on a mass scale. •strike down the security requirements established for ballot dropboxes.
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“Most troubling is that the McGrath campaign took aim at the overall bipartisan agreement, seeking to have it declared unconstitutional, potentially invalidating the votes that hundreds of thousands of Kentucky voters already have cast safely from home.
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“I will always defend the sanctity of our elections, and I am glad to have stopped a hypocritical lawsuit that was a direct threat to this election. Candidates should not attempt to game the electoral system to gain an advantage over their competitors, nor should they destabilize
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an already challenging election by trying to rig its rules mere days before it occurs. The McGrath campaign’s lawsuit was manifestly unfair to the Booker campaign, the Broihier campaign, and her other competitors, and repugnant to all Kentucky voters who want a fair election.”
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[A copy of the McGrath campaign’s complaint is linked here: https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/KYSOS/2020/06/16/file_attachments/1475079/20200616153724074.pdf …]
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[A copy of McGrath's campaign's radio ad “A Lot Easier" is linked here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fP4L7cIkk0&feature=youtu.be …]
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