Kentucky official reminds residents they can't vote for New York City mayor

Until the SCOTUS rules that they can, because that’s what they think the founding fathers intended.

Is this cancel culture?

Geoffrey Skelly, an analyst for Decision Desk HQ, responded on X: “If Kentucky had just remained part of Virginia in 1789, voters there could be voting for #VAGov right now. Their loss.”

The Louisville Democratic Party responded on X: “We are here for this energy. Kentucky, put our primary May 19, 2026 and Election Day, November 3, 2026 in your calendar for our next elections!”

Journalist Caitlin Huey-Burns wrote on X: “This is a good public service announcement.”

George Conway, a former Republican lawyer, responded: “There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy.”

is this seriously not the onion

Yeah I used to live there, it’s like that. Some of the people who called probably wanted to vote for Mamdani too

“We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry,” he wrote.

In a follow-up post, he added, “Have I mentioned my repeated call for civic education.”

Ehh…you could establish a residence in New York City and also in Kentucky and switch your domicile back and forth based on which place you want to vote in a given year.

EDIT: It looks like the bar for both is whether you spend at least 183 days a year, with part days counting. So technically, if you spend about half the year in each place, so some of those days are partly in each, you probably could just choose, since you could meet the bar for domicile in both places concurrently (though you can’t actually have domicile in both places simultaneously). I don’t know how frequently you can switch, though, like whether there’s a delay in voter registration taking effect or whatever.