Lackey v. Garner

Section 147 of the Constitution was amended in 1941 by adding “Counties so desiring may use voting machines, these machines to be installed at the expense of such counties.” Provision for the use of secret official ballots in all elections was retained.

Prior to the 1941 amendment it had been held that voting by a machine violated the secret ballot provision of Section 147 and that the legislative Act attempting to authorize voting by machine was unconstitutional as a violation of such provision. Jefferson County ex rel. Grauman v. Jefferson County Fiscal Court, 273 Ky. 674, 117 S.W.2d 918. A…