Bernie Sanders has requested a recanvass of the votes in Kentucky.
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Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton won Kentucky’s presidential primary by about 2,000 votes, less than one percent of the ballots cast.
Sanders could have gone to court and asked a judge to order a recount or an examination of individual ballots but then his campaign would have to pay for it. The delegate will be awarded based on final vote tallies and Clinton now leads Sanders by a slim margin of about 500 votes in that district. Sanders received 210,626. Throughout the entire state only 1,924 separated first place from second place.
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A recanvass is not a recount, according to the secretary of state’s office. Multiple news outlets said it was mathematically impossible for Sanders to win, and Clinton later declared herself the victor.
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Kentucky officials will meet Thursday morning to begin the recanvass. Unofficial results in that race show Republican Shenita Rickman ahead with 537 votes to 499 votes for John Yuen, who requested the recanvass.
Candidates had until 4 p.m. Tuesday to submit a recanvass request in a primary election. The most recent statewide recanvass occurred after the 2015 Republican primary for governor in which Matt Bevin defeated James Comer by 83 votes.
Lowry said he was not surprised by the request for a recanvass.
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LOS ANGELES – Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia and his push to make the party more inclusive could get “messy” but asserts in an interview with The Associated Press: “Democracy is not always nice and quiet and gentle”. A recanvass could possibly find human error, but it is unlikely to change anything dramatically in the vote count. There’s a good chance she’ll reach that total on June 7, when California, New Jersey, and four smaller states hold contests. When superdelegates – or unbound elected officials – are included in that count, Clinton needs to win only nine percent of the delegates in the remaining primary contests to amass a majority and clinch the Democratic nomination.
