Well, imagine being told you live in a new county, but you never moved.

That's the reality for some Kentuckians.

Today, lawmakers heard from Jefferson and Franklin County clerks about a new statewide mapping system used to determine voting districts and boundaries, and why it has some people confused about where they live, pay taxes, and vote.

Some Kentucky voters have received letters from the state Board of Elections with some shocking information.

They live in a different county than they originally thought, Jefferson County Clerk David Yates said.

It stems from a change the General Assembly made when he was a state senator.

And we decided that we had to have one line, one master mapping system in place for elections.

The change led to a single statewide map being used to determine voter registration.

It's more accurate than old technology, but it's causing problems for some voters whose residency and voter information was determined under informal personal agreements for.

Years and probably decades.

There's been a lot of agreements, handshake deals and work things off about where people would vote.

But we did.

We put a master list together, and we said that the Kentucky Board of Election was to put in the law of the land that this legislature passed.

They put together a map and said for each of us clerks, all 120 to identify based on the map they gave us, were people lot of no discretion.

The new map has over 200 voters being switched from Oldham County to Jefferson County, affecting State Senator Lindsey District.

As I have constituents who live in Oldham County who pay Oldham County taxes, whose kids go to Oldham County Schools and now they're represented by someone who doesn't live in that district and doesn't serve that district.

So when they have an issue speci they're their school issues and they call their legislator who is now someone new, who lives in Jefferson County.

It's you, Julie.

Sorry, Senator Rocky Adams.

How does she address that?

How does she figure out how to address an issue that she doesn't have jurisdiction over?

This is.

This is a mess.

It's a huge mess.

Unfortunately, it doesn't just affect the Senate seats.

It affects all of the local races in Oldham County.

These people voted in the primary for local races and now they have no vote in the general races to support their candidates.

No county lines were moved in this process.

These changes accurately reflect these voters counties of residents, but some of those affected have deeds to homes recorded in Oldham County.

And the issue brings up problems beyond voting.

Worry is how does it affect other areas?

In the event that you have a deed and it says that you live in Oldham County and your kids go to school in Autumn County and you're paying taxes in Oldham County.

But then I said, and because of the map, it says that you vote in Jefferson County.

We have a discrepancy now.

The lines didn't change.

The technology got better.

This new statewide mapping process is causing issues in urban and rural areas of the state.

We had a PVA file in Franklin County, where the mailbox was a mile into Franklin County, but their actual residence was in Anderson County, where they made a handshake agreement across aisle.

And 1985 that because all my services come out of Franklin County, I get taxed out of Franklin County.

We're going to call me a Franklin County resident.

So this is something that has been going on for decades, and now we get the opportunity to start correcting.

Lawmakers still had questions about what this all means for those affected, but the county clerk said it will likely have to play out in the courts for Kentucky edition.

I'm Clayton Dalton.

Another instance discussed in the meeting happened in 2024, when the state Board of Elections found over 200 people who believed they lived in Spencer County were actually residents of Shelby County.