Early in-person, no excuse.

Voting begins tomorrow in Kentucky.

Election officials are expecting high turnout and long lines at some polling places.

What should Fayette County's 250,000 registered voters expect?

Here's more from Kentucky Edition's Clayton Dalton.

And tonight's election 2024 Update.

I always say that back home, if I have a family member that doesn't decide to go vote, then I always tell them that they don't have a right to complain.

Susan LAMB is the Fayette County clerk.

She's relatively new to the job, but she says her office is ready to make sure elections in Lexington run as smoothly as possible.

On Election Day.

6 a.m. to 6 p.m. the clock, the polls will be open.

All 286 precincts will be open to our community members, registered voters at 135 different locations.

What's different this year is exciting that we have our six libraries trees here in Lexington.

All of our local libraries are not only going to be open for the three days early voting, which is October 31st and November 1st and second, which is Thursday, Friday, Saturday of this week.

But also those libraries will also be available on Election Day.

LAMB says they've added more privacy areas at the library, voting locations to allow more people to mark their ballots at the same time.

But she still expects that some voters will experience wait times.

We are really expecting a large turnout and so expect long lines.

The ballot is a front and back ballot.

It's a very there are two constitutional amendments.

There's one referendum.

So we are saying no.

Before you go.

Please visit Fayette County clerk dot com our website and you can go on there and read the referendum It's under the elections tab.

And also there's a link there to the secretary of State's office where you can read the two constitutional amendments.

It's not just in-person voting that's up this year.

The number of absentee ballots requested has been over 13,000 and we have over 8500 of those returned back already.

There's really not a comparative election to this year because the last presidential election was 2020 and it was during the pandemic.

So it was all absentee ballot.

And so there's really not anything to compare it to.

However, if you go back to November of 23, we only had 6615 absentee ballots requested.

So that's more than doubled.

At the end of the day.

Lam says her team does everything it can to ensure elections are safe and secure.

We go through and we have the inspections of all of our machines and we make sure that those machines are prepped and ready and that they are under surveillance and lock and key until the time that they are going to be used for the on elections, whether it's at the libraries or whether it's at the precincts.

We take great efforts and initiatives to make sure that we go through every single point.

And it's it's mind blowing.

But I feel even more confident about the security of our elections now that I actually have seen behind the scenes of what we do and how we take care of things.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm Clayton Dalton.

Thank you, Clayton.

The Fayette County Clerk's office is closed on Election Day, but this year it will be closed on the Monday before as well.

The staff will be processing around 4000 absentee ballots that day and all hands on deck operation.