All Kentucky county boards of elections will convene Thursday morning to recanvass the gubernatorial results from the General Election. This comes after Governor Matt Bevin filed a written request for a recanvass the day following the November 5th election in the race for Governor/Lt. Governor. Unofficial totals showed over 5,000 votes separated Bevin from Governor-Elect, Attorney General Andy Beshear.
Secretary Grimes has invited Secretary-Elect Michael Adams to join her in her office Thursday for the recanvass. Grimes has conducted over 20 recanvasses in her 8 years as Secretary of State. Grimes says it’s a big important part of the job and she hopes the 2020 Presidential Election will not be Adams’ first exposure to this process.
Officials say the purpose of a recanvass is to verify the accuracy of the vote totals reported from the voting machines. The county board of election 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.
County boards will convene at 9:00 Thursday morning to recheck and recanvass the voting machines, per Kentucky law.
Grimes says the results from the recanvass will be displayed at sos.ky.gov.
State officials say the Secretary of State Office conducted a recanvass as recent as 2018. The last statewide Kentucky election recanvass took place in 2016 in the Democratic presidential primary at the request of Bernie Sanders, due to the margin being less than 2,000 votes; however, the recanvass did not change the outcome of the election.
