- OCT 9 - NOV 3
- County clerks to test automatic tabulating equipment (not more than 30 nor less than 5 days prior to election day). KRS 117.389
- OCT 11
- Last day to register to vote for the General Election. [Monday, October 10, 2011, is Columbus Day]. KRS 116.045(2)
- OCT 12 - NOV 14
- Registration books are closed (fourth Tuesday proceeding through first Monday following election). [Monday, October 10, 2011, is Columbus Day].
[This time period may vary depending on whether the last day to register to vote falls on a state or federal holiday. If the last day to register to vote falls on a state or federal holiday, the period runs until the end of the next day which is not a Saturday or Sunday nor a state or federal holiday. KRS 116.045(2)]
- OCT 17
- Last day for clerks to notify county boards of elections that machines are ready for use (not later than 4 business days preceding the date set by the county board of elections to conduct absentee voting).
[This time period may vary depending on whether the county clerk intends to conduct absentee voting on Saturdays and whether the clerk intends to conduct absentee voting in the office for more than 12 working days before an election.] KRS 117.165(2)
- OCT 17
- Last day for county board of elections to publish notice of time when the absentee voting machines are to be examined by the board (not less than 24 hours before examination).
[This time period may vary depending on whether the county clerk intends to conduct absentee voting on Saturdays and whether the clerk intends to conduct absentee voting in the office for more than 12 working days before an election.] KRS 117.165(2)
- OCT 18
- Last day for county boards of elections to examine machines (not later than 3 business days preceding the date set by the county board of elections to conduct absentee voting).
[This time period may vary depending on whether the county clerk intends to conduct absentee voting on Saturdays and whether the clerk intends to conduct absentee voting in the office for more than 12 working days before an election.] KRS 117.165(2)
- OCT 19
- Last day for list of challengers to be submitted to county clerk (at least 20 days before election). KRS 117.315(2), (3) & (5)
- OCT 21 - NOV 7
- Voter may make application to vote absentee in clerk’s office at least 12 working days preceding election.
[This time period may vary depending on whether the county clerk intends to conduct absentee voting on Saturdays and whether the clerk intends to conduct absentee voting in the office for more than 12 working days before an election.] KRS 117.085(1)(c)
- OCT 26 - NOV 8
- Voter and their spouse may request paper absentee ballot because of medical emergency (within 14 days of election). KRS 117.077
- OCT 28, 4PM
- Last day to file a declaration of intent as a write-in candidate (on or before the fourth Friday in October). KRS 117.265(2)
- OCT 31
- Last day for county boards of election to send written notice of appointment to precinct officers appointed since the primary (not less than 10 days before election). [See KRS 446.030(1) (b)] KRS 117.045(7)
- NOV 1
- Last day to apply for mail-in absentee ballot (not later than close of business 7 days before election). Applications must be received by this day. KRS 117.075 KRS 117.085
- NOV 1
- Last day for any voter who has received an absentee ballot by mail but who knows at least 7 days before election day that he or she will be in the county on election day and who has not voted the absentee ballot to cancel his or her absentee ballot and vote in person. The voter shall return the absentee ballot to the county clerk’s office no later than 7 days before the election. KRS 117.085(7)
- NOV 1 - NOV 7
- Members of the Armed Forces confined to a military base on election day, who learn of that confinement within seven (7) days or less of an election, may make application to vote absentee in the clerk’s office. KRS 117.085(1)(e)(5)
- NOV 1
- Last day for state board of elections to furnish county clerks with lists of registered voters (at least 5 days before election). KRS 117.025(3)(c)
- NOV 3
- Last day for clerks to notify county boards of elections that machines are ready for use (Thursday before election). KRS 117.165(1)
- NOV 3
- Last day for county clerks to publish copy of ballot (not less than 3 days before election). KRS 424.290(1)
- NOV 3
- Last day for county board of elections to publish notice of time when the machines are to be examined by the board (not less than 24 hours before examination). KRS 117.165(1)
- NOV 4
- Last day for clerk to equip machines with supplies for write-in votes (not later than Friday before election). KRS 117.145(3)
- NOV 4
- Last day for county boards of elections to examine machines (not later than Friday before election). KRS 117.165(1)
- NOV 8
- General Election Day (first Tuesday after first Monday in November). Polls open 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., prevailing time. County boards of elections to be in session all day. Mail-in absentee ballots must be received by clerk before 6 p.m., prevailing time. County boards of elections to meet at clerk’s office at 10 a.m. to count absentee ballots. Ky. Const. § 148 KRS 118.025(4) KRS 118.035(1) KRS 117.035(4) KRS 117.086(1) KRS 117.087(3)
- NOV 9 - DEC 8
- Voting machines and ballot boxes to be locked 30 days following election. KRS 117.295(1)
- NOV 9
- Earliest date for the affixing of signatures on candidate filing forms for an office of the ballot in 2012 (not prior to the first Wednesday after the first Monday in November of the year preceding the year the office will appear on the ballot). KRS 118.125(2) KRS 118.165(1) KRS 118.315(2) KRS 118A.060(2) KRS 83A.045
- NOV 14, 12 PM
- The County Board of Elections shall certify the total number of votes to the Secretary of State’s Office not later than 12 p.m., prevailing time, on the Friday following the election. [Friday, November 11, 2011, is Veteran’s Day] KRS 118.425(4)
- NOV 14
- Last day for precinct sheriffs to file report (within 3 days after election). [Friday, November 11, 2011, is Veteran’s Day] KRS 117.355(1)
- NOV 15, 4 PM
- Deadline to request recanvass before 4 p.m. on Tuesday after election. KRS 117.305(1)
- NOV 17, 9AM
- County Boards of Elections shall conduct any requested recanvass at 9 a.m. on Thursday after deadline to request recanvass, and not sooner. [Thursday, November 11, 2010, is a legal holiday. See KRS 446.030(2).] KRS 117.305(1)
- NOV 18
- Last day for county boards of elections to file post-election reports to the State Board of Elections and county Grand Jury (within 10 days after election). KRS 117.355(2)
- NOV 18
- Last day for candidate to file petition for recount (within 10 days after election). KRS 120.185(1)
- NOV 21
- County Board of Elections (except counties containing cities of the first class. See KRS 118.425(3)) shall issue certificates of election (not later than the second Monday after the election). KRS 118.425(2)
- NOV 28
- Last day for state board of elections to meet to tabulate votes and make out certificates of election (not later than the third Monday after election). KRS 118.425(5)
- DEC 8
- Last day to file petition to contest election or to petition for recount on public question (within 30 days after election). KRS 120.155 KRS 120.250
- DEC 8
- Last day for county clerks to send precinct rosters and recapitulation sheets to State Board of Elections (within 30 days after any primary or general election). KRS 117.275(7) KRS 117.355(3)
- DEC 31
- Last day for the state executive committee of each political party to notify the State Board of Elections of its decision whether to distribute its party’s authorized delegate votes for presidential candidates at its party’s national convention based on the results of a party caucus, a presidential preference primary, or a combination of the two (2) methods (not later than the December 31 preceding the day for conducting a presidential preference primary as set by KRS 118.561). KRS 118.555(1)
- DEC 31
- Last day to change political party affiliation and be eligible to vote in that political party affiliations’ upcoming primary election (on December 31 immediately preceding primary election).
[This date may vary depending on whether it falls on a Sunday or legal holiday: If any proceeding is directed by law to take place, or any act is directed to be done, on a particular day of a month and that day is Sunday, the proceeding shall take place, or the act shall be done, on the next day that is not a legal holiday. KRS 446.030(2)] KRS 116.055