Too many candidates could trigger run-off primary elections.

With everyone and their kin announcing that they plan on running for Kentucky Governor in 2007, a little known provision in state law could trigger a run-off election -- if none of the Gubernatorial slates receives 40% or more of the votes cast in the primary. The law, KRS 118.245 (3), provides: A slate of candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor that receives the highest number of its party's votes but which number is less than forty percent (40%) of the votes cast for all slates of candidates of that party, shall be required to participate in a runoff primary with the slate of candidates of the same party receiving the second highest number of votes.
And you thought the drama was just over speculating on who will run and on what slate!