While American citizens in Kentucky will vote on whether only American citizens can vote in Kentucky.

Now, if that sounds confusing here, we explain.

Only U.S. citizens can vote in federal and state wide elections, but state Republican lawmakers say there's nothing to stop cities from allowing refugees and other undocumented immigrants from voting in local elections.

A statewide and national campaign wants to close that gap.

And I do think that most people think that this is not an issue because it hasn't happened here yet.

But again, we can point to San Francisco.

We can point to municipalities in Vermont and Maryland and Washington, D.C. now, where it has happened under similar language to what we have.

Now, I'm not here to say that it would absolutely happen under our constitutional language that would, as Senator Howell articulated, come down to how our courts here in the state interpret that issue, or if it was taken up through the federal court process, it might be interpreted differently than it was in California or it was in Maryland or Vermont.

However, this just clarifies and make sure that it's not an issue and it doesn't go to the courts.

It's handled by the people of the Commonwealth.

It's really going to make the secretary life easier intellectually honest traders lives easier because you're taking away the ability for localities, municipalities to create bifurcated systems that would just further complicate the administration of elections.

But the national group Americans for Citizens Voting just released this digital ad in Kentucky.

I think if you're a citizen, then you should be able to vote.

But if you're not, I feel fairly strongly that you should not be defying.

In a committee meeting of state lawmakers earlier this summer.

Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams, Kentucky's chief election official, said in his tenure, his office has, quote, seen no evidence that non-citizens have voted or attempted to vote in our elections in quote.