Thread by @joesonka

Just talked to spox for the Jefferson County Clerk, with easily the most Democratic voters in the state and the biggest factor in #kysen results. A few things:

Based on past statements from county/state election officials, we expected Jefferson County results to come Tuesday after 6pm, but they will come earlier. Spox says these likely will be sent to state that morning & then posted publicly -- including all early and mail-ins. #kysen

JeffCo spox also said they don't have a final figure for how many absentee ballots were mailed in, but should have that number soon. Said there were ~100 in a bin to go over whether signature was correct, plus waiting on a few counties to FedEx ballots sent to wrong address.

With both Jefferson and Fayette releasing their results Tuesday morning (we think), we MAY have a decent idea who won the Booker-McGrath race before 6pm. Then again, it may still be too close to call. #kysen

Daviess County (Owensboro) which had posted much of its voting results as of Friday (including almost half of its mail-ins), tells me they won't be posting any more totals today. They'll be releasing their totals tomorrow morning like Jefferson and Fayette. #kysen

Update on turnout/mail-in votes: As of this morning at least 738,318 mail-in absentee ballots had been received & processed by county clerks in Kentucky, or 87% of those sent to voters. #kysen

With the (unofficial) 271,368 who voted in-person early & on Tuesday, Kentucky has surpassed 1 million votes in a primary for the first time ever. We don't have an official turnout number yet, though. #kysen

As of this morning, 184,904 (!) mail-in ballots have been returned in Jefferson County (88% of those sent out), which is about 8,000 votes short of breaking the all-time county primary turnout record alone without even counting in-person Tuesday and early voting. #kysen

Also: 78,577 absentee ballots have been received by Fayette County Clerk, or nearly 90% of those issued. #kysen

The mail-in absentee ballots received by Jefferson and Fayette county clerks so far account for 35.7% of all the absentee ballots received by county clerks in Kentucky so far. Again, these are not total/final numbers just yet. We might know totals Tuesday morning. #kysen

Update from Jefferson County Clerk's office: Their total of absentee mail-in ballots received has now reached 185,365, or 88.2% of those sent out. #kysen

(Corrected tweet here, clerk sent me the wrong numbers)

Boyd County has tabulated all of its votes:

McGrath: 3,117
Booker: 1,583

McGrath performed better with the absentee ballots than she did with in-person voting on Tuesday, widening lead a bit. #kysen

*not from clerk herself, from observer watching office tally today

We have unofficial 100% totals from Boyd County and Shelby County today, but I'm not expecting too many more today, as most (and the biguns, Jefferson and Fayette) are ready to tabulate and report their entire vote totals tomorrow. #kysen

Unofficial 100% #kysen totals in from Floyd County:

McGrath: 2,287, 54%
Booker: 1,141, 27%
Broihier finished 5th

*1,142 for Booker, one off

Unofficial 100% #kysen totals from Barren County:

McGrath: 2,048 votes, 51.5%
Booker: 1,480 votes, 37.2%

This is another rural county where Booker did better in Tuesday in-person voting than the absentee vote. He actually had more votes on Tuesday.

Looks like we may also have unofficial 100% #kysen totals in Hardin county:

McGrath: 5,150 votes
Booker: 5,128 votes

Booker was up over McGrath 50%-33% in Hardin County on just the in-person totals from Tuesday. Once again in a ruralish county, including the absentees swings a county in direction of McGrath. #kysen

Also looks like most if not all unofficial #kysen results for Woodford County are in:

McGrath: 2,180 votes, 51%
Booker: 1,449 votes, 34%

I'm back from my print deadline. McCracken County (Paducah) 100% unofficial #kysen results are now in:

McGrath: 3,879
Booker: 2,960

Booker had 61% of the in-person vote from Tuesday, another absentee swing for McGrath.

With McCracken in, it's fair to say that yet another comeback attempt by Carroll Hubbard has fallen well short. #kyga20

I'm going to repeat this point: Even with nearly a dozen counties reporting full results today, we have only seen a small % of the total vote in Kentucky -- less than 20%. The big boys (Jefferson and Fayette) are coming in tomorrow morning and we'll know much more then. #kysen

I expect we will know the winner of the Booker-McGrath #kysen race by noon tomorrow. Unless it is really, really, really close. Which it could be!