On November 5, Kentucky voters in the 29th State Senate district saw two names on their ballot for State Senate. However, there were signs in the polling places saying votes for neither candidate would be counted. One name was David Suhr, an independent candidate, but he had withdrawn because of his need to be deployed overseas in the military. The other name was the incumbenet, Senator Johnnie Turner, but he had died shortly before the election.

There were eleven declared write-in candidates. One of them, Pineville Mayor Scott Madon, won with 6,825 write-in votes, 35.18% of the total vote for all eleven declared write-in candidates. Kentucky was fortunate to have a very late deadline for candidates to file as declared write-ins. Otherwise a special election would have been needed in the near future.

The list of declared write-in candidates was not posted at the polling places, but any voter was free to ask to see the list. Polling place officials would then give a copy of the list to the voter who had requested to see it.

Names did not need to be spelled correctly, and first names weren’t required.