Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has notified Kentucky’s Secretary of State that he wants a fully and complete recants of all voting machines and absentee ballot of all precincts in all 120 counties in the state’s Democratic primary.
“The purpose of a remcanvass is to verify the accuracy of the vote totals reported from the voting machines,” said Alison L. Grimes, Kentucky’s Secretary of State.
She has set Thursday, May 26 at 9 a.m. for county boards of elections to conduct the remcanvass per Kentucky law.
Unofficial vote totals indicate Sanders trails opponent Hillary Clinton by less than 2,000 votes.
“My office is notifying all county boards of elections that Sen. Sanders has requested a recanvass, and we are reminding them of the laws and procedures to be followed,” said Grimes. “As always, we will assist the county boards of elections in any way we can.”
The boards will notify the candidates of the location of the recanvass. Immediately upon completion of the recanvass, the boards will file their recanvass reports with the Secretary of State.
Each candidate and both political parties may have a representative present at the recanvass, and the county board of elections shall authorize media to observe.
In addition to the Democratic presidential primary, the Jefferson County Board of Elections will also recanvass the results in the Republican primary for State Senate, 33rd District, at the request of candidate John Yuen who trails his opponent, Shenita Rickman, in unofficial totals.
The deadline to submit a recanvass request in a Primary Election race was today, May 24, at 4 p.m. ET.
The last statewide recanvass was conducted last year in the Republican Gubernatorial primary at the request of James Comer/Chris McDaniel, candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. The margin was 83 votes and the recanvass did not change the results or outcome of the election.