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Absentee ballot 5.jpg less than three months to the general election and kentucky officials still can't agree on how kentuckians should vote.

The governor wants more, no-excuse, absentee and mail-in.

But the secretary of state has concerns about mail-in voting and the costs.

Abc 36's christy bollinger tells us where we might be headed.

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Kentuckians have plenty of reasons to know how they are going to vote in november.

Sos-adams"some absentee balloting, some early voting, and more locations on election day.

That to me is the most rational way to approach this."

The governor agrees with more polling locations..

And early voting.

Both think early voting should be at least two weeks.

But they disagree on absentee voting.

Gov beshear"we need no excuse absentee voting that is necessary when you have a worldwide health pandemic out there and you see the type of participation that we had."

Adams and beshear agreed on the primary.

But not now.

Adams"he's been out there at his press conference everyday calling for a particular system without waiting for the evidence without waiting for my review to take place first i think that was a mistake but i'm hopeful he'll be the same person now as he was in the spring."

Adams wants to narrow the no-excuse absentee voting...and he worries that with an expected 70 percent turnout, a large mail-in vote would bog down the system, not to mention increase voter errors an risk ballots lost in the mail.

Fayette clerk-don blevins"we can't have an expanded mail, full mail in election plus open lots of polling places and the reason is i have very few experts here at the office that know how to do both of those things."

Franklin county clerk jeff hancock says repeating the primary plan for the general would work for him... but he knows it might not for the other 119 counties..

Franklin clerk-jeff hancock"i think that's what your bigger counties are saying i can either do the mail in or i can do the more locations but i can't do it all."

Hancock says absentee voting worked well..

He expects it would in the fall, too.

Hancock"and i'm hoping we can put that procedure in place with earlier start time, an earlier finish time so we can fix any problems with people who did not follow the directions."

None of the players are worried about fraud.

They say that's not an issue.

Adding locations to drop off ballots also can be done easily.

The issue is time...get a plan now so everyone knows what's going on..

Blevins"we simply can't get the envelopes here in time.

We don't have enough time to actually physically do it.

So the governor and secretary of state really need to get going."

The secretary hopes to give his plan to the governor before the weekend is over.

Christy bollinger, abc 36 news.

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