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Somebody Find Tom Joad, Lexington Needs Him

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Never have I been made aware of a more dire injustice:

For the first time in decades stores and restaurants across Kentucky will be able to sell alcohol on Election Day, while the polls are open. But because of an preexisting ordinance businesses in Lexington will not be joining them.

Last year Senate Bill 13 changed a number of Kentucky’s alcohol policies, including the statewide ban on selling alcohol while the voting polls were open.

“But removing it from the state didn’t remove any local ordinances that may or may not have passed,” said Roger Leasor, the director of community relations for Liquor Barn. “Not every city had one.”

But Lexington did. While the state law did away with the ban, it also said any city could pass a new ban and any existing bans were still in place.

“I think everybody assumed that the state law took care of it for Lexington, and no one really thought to look to see if there was a local ordinance on the books,” Leasor said.

By the time that ordinance was discovered it was too late to get it removed in time for this election.

Democracy, I think we can all agree, has failed. Time to hand the whole show over to Putin.

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