RELATES TO:
KRS
117.055(2),
117.345(2)
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: The State Board of
Elections shall not remit to a county the expenses of an election for any
precinct containing less than 350 registered voters unless the county has
received prior approval from the State Board of Elections. This administrative
regulation is necessary to set forth under what circumstances the State Board
of Elections shall grant approval for a precinct containing less than 350
registered voters.
Section 1. The State
Board of Elections shall approve the establishment of a precinct containing
less than 350 registered voters by a county board of elections if the county
board submits to the state board a written request for approval that
demonstrates either of the following:
(1) That
combining the subject precinct with an adjoining precinct will create an undue
hardship on the voters of the subject precinct because of geographic
impediments in the subject precinct or the distance from the polling place in
the subject precinct to the closest polling place in an adjoining precinct;
or
(2) That combining the subject
precinct with an adjoining precinct would create an undue hardship on the
voters of the precinct because fifty (50) percent or more of the voters in the
subject precinct are physically disabled or elderly.
Section 2. A written request for approval
under Section 1 of this administrative regulation shall be accompanied by
supportive evidence which may include a map illustrating the difficulty of
combining the subject precinct with an adjoining precinct due to geographic
impediments or distance.
Section 3.
Nothing in this administrative regulation shall impair or affect the
requirement that the county board of elections establish precincts so that no
boundary of a precinct crosses a boundary set forth in
KRS
117.055(1) .
