The 2024 general election is now just one week away.

Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams continues to encourage Kentuckians to vote early.

Speaking in Louisville this morning, Secretary Adams said he's expecting more than 2 million votes cast in this election in Kentucky.

He says if most people wait until Election Day, it could end up being a long night.

We expect a mammoth turnout in this election.

The highest turnout we ever had was in 2020.

That was the highest nationally since 1908 as a proportion of people voting.

We had three weeks of in-person voting.

We had expanded absentee.

We pulled it off.

We don't have those tools in our tool box now.

We have three days of early voting.

We have normal absentee rules.

If we have, as we expect, north of 2 million people voting, maybe two and a half million people voting, and they procrastinate and they went to the last day.

That's going to be a very long day for our voters and a very long day for our poll workers.

Secretary Adams also said only about half of the roughly 130,000 absentee ballots requested have been returned.

At a find out where you can return them or to find where you can go vote, log on to go vote dot K-Y dot gov.

As a reminder, early voting starts this Thursday.