EAdIElection Administration Index

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: KRS 121.015 (campaign-finance definitions) is unrelated. No financial-interest / conflict-of-interest disclosure requirement for election commissioners or senior staff was surfaced.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: The surfaced candidates concern writs and proclamations for special elections (KRS 118.720-118.770) and precinct-boundary maintenance, not a codified right of judicial review of election-authority decisions. Kentucky's judicial review of election disputes runs through the Circuit Court contest/recount provisions of KRS Chapter 120 (scored under EDRI).

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: The State Board of Elections is established and mandated by statute — KRS 117.015 — not by the Kentucky Constitution. The FTS query surfaced precinct-boundary and offense-prosecution provisions rather than the establishing section, and the constitutional-grounding criterion is not met.

KRS 117.015 establishes the State Board of Elections as an independent agency whose members are appointed by the Governor from lists submitted by the two major political parties' state central executive committees — a party-balanced appointment, but appointment by a single branch (the executive) rather than a multi-branch process.

KRS 117.015 codifies the composition and fixed membership of the State Board of Elections, and KRS 117.035 codifies the county board of elections with appointed members serving defined terms. Fixed terms are codified, but explicit cause-only removal protection for commission members is not clearly codified.

KRS 117.025 codifies a political-balance requirement: the State Board of Elections appoints an executive director and 'shall also appoint an assistant director, who shall be of a different political party than the director,' and must employ its staff 'on a bipartisan basis.' KRS 117.035 codifies the county board with two appointed members representing both parties, and KRS 117.015 seats the State Board from both parties' lists. Statutory party balance codified.

“The board shall also appoint an assistant director, who shall be of a different political party than the director.”

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: The surfaced candidates concern political-party building funds, the income-tax party designation, and campaign-finance reporting — not the election authority's budget. No separate statutory funding line insulated from executive reallocation was surfaced.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: KRS 117.393 requires the State Board of Elections to submit a biennial report on the status of voting equipment and systems — a reporting cycle, not a multi-year election-infrastructure funding cycle.

Kentucky's 2022 foreign-money law codifies a foreign-funding prohibition: KRS 121.254 bars a foreign national from directly or indirectly making, soliciting, or directing a donation, contribution, or expenditure on a ballot measure; KRS 121.250 bars a political issues committee from knowingly receiving foreign-national funds and requires a no-foreign-funding certification; and KRS 121.252 requires donor affirmations, recordkeeping, and creates a presumption of violation. A comprehensive foreign-source funding prohibition is codified.

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

KRS 117.187 codifies mandatory training: the State Board of Elections 'shall regularly provide special training regarding the election laws and methods of enforcement' to county boards of elections, county and Commonwealth's attorneys, and designated State Police, and the county board of elections must provide training (and compensation) for precinct election officers and certified challengers. Mandatory training is codified.

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

KRS 117.379 codifies the voting-system certification process: any person or corporation owning, manufacturing, or selling a voting system or e-poll book may request examination by the State Board of Elections on a $500 deposit and an accredited test report, and KRS 117.125 sets the detailed specifications a system must meet for approval. The criteria, the evaluator (State Board), and the examination procedure are codified.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: The FTS query surfaced only KRS 116.048 (NVRA voter-registration agencies), which is unrelated to voting-system recertification. KRS 117.379 provides for 'reexamination' of an approved system, but no recertification-trigger provision was surfaced for this datapoint.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: The surfaced candidates concern certification of vote counts (KRS 117.275) and campaign-finance reporting exemptions (KRS 121.180), not the grounds or procedure for revoking a voting system's certification.