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KentuckyVotes.org: Your representatives. Your issues.

(Bowling Green, Kentucky) – Kentucky’s citizen-activists now have free access to a host of new tools that will help them track legislation like never before.

KentuckyVotes.org, the new voter-information service, is offered as a free public service of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions and aims to give voters a complete online voting record for every legislator in the General Assembly.

KentuckyVotes.org director Caleb O. Brown says the service will bring greater transparency to the 2006 legislative session.

“Citizen-activists can sign up for free daily e-mails detailing legislative activity,” Brown said. “Finally, voters can react to proposed legislation before their representatives actually cast a vote.”

Bluegrass Institute President Chris Derry says KentuckyVotes.org raises the bar for what constitutes an accountable legislature.

“Now voters can exert their influence with the click of a mouse button.” Derry said. “Connecting directly to Frankfort’s legislative activities establishes a new era of grassroots activism across the Commonwealth.”

KentuckyVotes.org already contains a complete record of every roll-call vote in the 2005 legislative session. In 2006, KentuckyVotes.org will cover General Assembly events as they transpire.

 The Bluegrass Institute is an independent research and educational institution offering free-market solutions to Kentucky's most pressing problems.

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400 East Main Avenue, Bowling Green, KY 42101

(Editor’s note:  A link to KentuckyVotes.org has been added to the home page of Jefferson Review on the left side under the title “How did your Kentucky Legislator vote?”)

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