(AP) — Secretary
of State Alison Lundergan Grimes will deliver the keynote address
during a symposium on election law at the University of Kentucky.
The
symposium is scheduled for Friday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the University of
Kentucky College of Law Courtroom. Grimes, a Democrat,
is Kentucky's chief election officer.
The
symposium will feature talks from election law professors from around the
country. Topics include voter identification, gerrymandering and campaign
finance.
Judge Jim Park and Gregory Pettit are scheduled to discuss "The
Spider Election," a book about Lexington's 1973 disputed mayoral election.
Pettit is the son of Foster Pettit, the first mayor of Lexington-Fayette County
after the two governments merged in 1973.
The event is
sponsored by the Kentucky Law Journal and is free and open to the
public.
