**Kentucky GOP Primary Meltdown: Local Man Demands "Common Sense" After Seeing 15-Foot Ballot With Candidates Most Have Never Heard Of**

Kentucky GOP Primary Meltdown: Local Man Demands “Common Sense” After Seeing 15-Foot Ballot with Candidates Most Have Never Heard Of

Posted to “Bowling Green & Warren County Neighbors”

Dave Thompson — [2 hours ago]

Alright, folks. I just got back from the polling station off Scottsville Road, and I am officially done. I consider myself a fairly reasonable, common-sense guy. I mow my lawn, I pay my taxes, and I don’t ask for much.

But can someone please explain to me why I had to unfold a 15-foot paper scroll just to find the name of the guy I actually wanted to vote for?

I walked in there to vote in the Kentucky primary, thinking it’s “the most important election of our time.” I get handed a ballot that looks like the receipt for a tractor trailer full of toilet paper. There are literally 12 names for Senate seats nobody knew were open, 9 candidates for some obscure county coroner race, and a bunch of “librarians” running for school board who I’ve never seen set foot in a school.

I stood there for 15 minutes, squinting like I’m reading a map with a flashlight in a tent. The poll worker (who was older than my dad and had the patience of a saint) just shrugged and said, “It’s complicated this year.”

Common sense says: If I need a magnifying glass and a degree in political science to vote in a primary, something is broken. Why is the ballot design harder to navigate than the I-65 construction?

And don’t get me started on the “judges.” I had to vote for retention of judges I’ve never heard of, based on zero information except some “rating” from a website I don’t trust. Common sense says you don’t re-elect a judge unless you know they put criminals in