{Kentucky}...Secretary of State Elaine Walker predicted Monday that voter turnout in Kentucky for the November 8th general election is expected to be about 25 to 28 percent. That would be considerably lower than the 37.8 percent of Kentucky voters who turned out in 2007 during the last gubernatorial election. Walker said she did not think this year's turnout would be lower than the 22.4 percent in the 1999 race for governor when Democratic incumbent Paul Patton beat Peppy Martin. Walker says more than 5,600 absentee ballots have been requested to date and about 3,800 people already have voted by absentee ballot for a total of 9,506 absentee ballots. At this time in 2007, the state already had more than 37,000 requests for absentee ballots or votes by absentee.
