Election 2020, News, White House Report

Kentucky Voters Shut Out at Polls

April Ryan
June 25, 2020

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President Trump visited Arizona, which is seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases, to tour a portion of the border wall and spoke for 90 minutes at a student conference in Phoenix. The president addressed calls for police reform & defunding which he claimed will win him reelection. Congress votes on police reform on Thursday.

Regarding voting, Kentucky voters who were shut out banged on on windows at polling stations demanding to be allowed to vote. A judge ruled to keep polling stations open later to accommodate voters.

Click ▶️ to listen to AURN Washington Bureau Chief April Ryan’s White House Report:

?#Kentucky cut its polling places for Tuesday’s primary from 3,700 to 200, and voters report not getting #MailInBallots.

There‘s only 1 polling place for 616,000 registered voters in Louisville’s Jefferson County, where 50% of #KY’s black voters live.?https://t.co/D0SgZuEVhZ
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) June 19, 2020

Voters wait patiently in line to cast their ballots in the Kentucky primary at Kroger Field in Lexington, Ky., Tuesday, June 23, 2020. The wait time to get to the voting area was in excess of 90 minutes. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

April Ryan has a unique vantage point as the only Black female reporter covering urban issues from the White House, a position she has held with AURN since the Clinton era. Her position as a White House Correspondent has afforded her heightened insight into the racial sensitivities, issues, and attendant political struggles of our nation. April has written three books; The Presidency in Black & White: My Close-Up View of Three Presidents and Race in America, At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White, and Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House. Twitter: @aprildryan