If We Can't Have Clean Elections, At Least Now We Can Get Hammered During Them
Of course, there was nothing stopping anyone from getting drunk on election day, as long as you bought your liquor ahead of time. All the prohibition-era law did was prevent you from purchasing on election day the booze you choose to drown your political sorrows in.
Actually, the supposed purpose of the law was to crack down on vote buying. Back in the day, enterprising voters would hang around on election day, waiting for political operatives to offer a drink for support of their candidate. Banning liquor sales on election day made such transactions a fraction less convenient, but didn't put a dent in the practice.
And now elections in Kentucky get a fraction less hypocritical.
From the Herald:
The Kentucky General Assembly gave final approval late Tuesday to a bill that would allow alcohol sales on Election Day.
Kentucky had been one of two states that did not allow Election Day alcohol sales. South Carolina is the other. In the past five years, similar bans have been lifted in Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Utah and West Virginia.
Alcohol sales in Kentucky had been prohibited while polls were open — from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. — on primary and general election days.
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