Last week, lawyers with the Kentucky attorney general’s office answered phones and vetted concerns about voting issues.
The attorney general’s office received 348 complaints on Election Day, according to online records. Another 357 complaints came in before Nov. 5, as more than 790,000 Kentuckians voted early. Twenty more complaints flowed in last week after the polls closed.
Despite fears of election fraud that have received outsized attention during the past five years — fueled in large part by President-elect Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election — it is rare in Kentucky and across the U.S.
“The people here in Kentucky need to know that their election here is secure, and it’s done with integrity. And I can honestly say that it has been,” said Rich Ferretti, the commissioner of the Kentucky Attorney General’s Department of Criminal Investigations.
“The hundreds and hundreds of calls we got — luckily, very few of those things are going to be of a criminal nature,” he said.