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Committee recommends codifying Attorney General election investigations office
Summary
House Bill 455 would create a statutory Office of Election Investigations within the attorney general’s office to handle election complaints, investigations, a hotline and legislative oversight; the committee gave the bill a favorable recommendation after questions about cost and overlap with existing units.
Representative Patrick Flannery presented House Bill 455 and told the committee the bill would establish an Office of Election Investigations and Security within KRS Chapter 15. "Very briefly what it does, it creates in KRS 15 a new section. It outlines the duties of the office of election investigations and security," Flannery said, listing functions such as allegation review, investigations, prosecutorial referrals, a voter-fraud hotline and legislative oversight.
Committee members asked whether the attorney general’s office already had authority or an existing unit to perform these functions.…
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