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Registered voters from across the Commonwealth will travel to polls Tuesday to vote in Kentucky’s Primary Election. Voters will elect there party’s nominee for all state wide offices. Secretary of State Trey Grayson is predicting that only 10 to 15 percent of the Commonwealth’s registered voters will bother heading to the polls. Pike Pounty Clerk Lillian Pearl Elliot says that her office is having trouble coming up with the required poll workers for each precinct. Pike County is required to have 228 poll workers to cover the county’s 57 precincts. Each precinct is required to staff two Democratic and two Republicans as workers. Elliot added that her office would not know if the precincts will be properly staffed until Tuesday morning. They are 44,995 registered voters in Pike County, with 34,000 Democrats and just under 10,000 Republicans. The polls will be open Tuesday from 6am till 6pm. If a candidate for governor doesn’t garner the necessary 40 percent of the vote. Then they will be a runoff election in five weeks. Tune into the stations of EKB for election results.