A red state's top election official was forced to notify voters they weren't able to cast votes against New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Elections during odd-numbered years when voters don't cast ballots for presidents or congressional representatives are known as off-year elections, and the election this year in Kentucky is entirely off thanks to a quirk in the commonwealth's constitution.

“In 1992, Kentuckians voted to amend our state constitution to give themselves, and election officials, a year off from elections once every four years,” Secretary of State Michael Adams told the Lexington Herald-Leader. “In that amendment, local officials elected in 1993 were given a one-year extension to their four-year term, and from 1998 forward they have been elected in midterm elections, along with Congress and the General Assembly, rather than in an odd year."

Just in case would-be voters didn't see his statement to the newspaper, Adams let them know on X there was nothing nefarious going on at polling places in the Bluegrass State.

"We’re getting calls about polls being closed," Adams said. "They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry."

With few statewide elections scheduled anywhere in the U.S., the three-way mayor race between self-described Democratic-Socialist Zohran Mamdani, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa has attracted substantial attention, and gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey have also been seen as bellwethers for next year's congressional midterms.

Kentucky voters will have plenty of races to consider next year, when they'll decide on a replacement for retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), along with half the state Senate seats, all 100 seats in the state House, and numerous other state and local races.