As Kentucky Rechecks Votes, Many Are Ready to Move On. The Governor Is Not.
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Source: New York Times
Each of Kentucky’s 120 counties will spend about an hour Thursday morning double-checking the vote totals from Election Day last week, a procedure requested by the state’s incumbent governor after he lost the contest by about 5,000 votes.
On the eve of the recanvass — which is widely expected to confirm the victory of Attorney General Andy Beshear, the Democratic challenger — it seemed that nearly everyone was ready to put the election behind them. The state has begun preparing for a new administration, and Mr. Beshear has named the head of his transition team and the grand marshals of his inauguration parade.
The House Republican caucus has invited Mr. Beshear to its annual retreat to discuss areas of possible policy agreement. Senator Mitch McConnell, the majordomo of Kentucky Republicans, told a reporter for The Lexington Herald-Leader on Monday that, “barring some dramatic reversal on the recanvass, we’ll have a different governor in three weeks.”
Still, there remains at least one person who is not so ready to move on: Gov. Matt Bevin. “We are not conceding this race by any stretch,” Mr. Bevin declared from the podium at his election party last week. “We want the process to be followed.” Given the simplicity of the procedure and the statistical closeness of the final margin — less than half a percent of 1.4 million votes cast — many in Kentucky saw Mr. Bevin’s call for a recanvass as perfectly justifiable, though such an effort has not in recent memory overturned an election.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/us/kentucky-governor-recanvass-bevin.html
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November 13, 2019 at 1:55 PM EST - Updated November 14 at 8:28 AM
See: https://www.wave3.com/2019/11/13/recanvass-kentucky-gubernatorial-election-results-requested-by-gov-bevin-set-thursday/
A candidate can contest the results only after the election board has completed certification. Should a candidate pursue a contest after certification, they must file a written notice citing specific grounds for the contest within 30 days of the election board's final action.
Once that notice is given, the Kentucky General Assembly would then be authorized to constitute a board to review the evidence and hear depositions. This board must consist of three state senators and eight state House representatives.
KY..........
I remember last week when CNN also had an article on what the next steps would be - https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/politics/what-is-a-recanvass/index.html
It seems the GOP have given up on Bevin, although I wouldn't trust them until the process is complete. 
especially our teachers (eg, my daughter) and those low-income folks needing medical care. Unfortunately, due to the Legislature, our new governor will be highly restrained as to what he'll be able to accomplish and the thugs will be attacking him constantly.
I think a great number of Rethugs in KY despise Bevin as much as we do, but many held their noses and voted for him regardless. Party before people for them.
Way too much Rethug Kool-Aid dispensed in this state for far too long, thanks to McConnell, Fox and Limbaugh.
KY........
I remember Bevin's near-first act was to torpedo Kynect and that was a mess.
I did just discover that Beshear was looking to re-create the state's own exchange and when reading about that, I found an article about my own state - PA - planning to do the same and just recently enacted legislation to do just that - https://www.healthinsurance.org/pennsylvania-state-health-insurance-exchange/ 
I didn't even hear anything about that on the news here (the state has been operating under the federal exchange). I think people had been glad when Wolf was elected back in 2014, where he at least restored the Medicaid expansion here after the previous GOP governor had refused it.
Both despised nationwide. Both need to be gone.
Bevin just can't believe he lost. We are not the herd of sheep he thought.
Hi from KY.
and we are the 5th largest state by population!
Maybe KY had the same thought as Iowa with respect to creating counties - perhaps to take into consideration mining towns and large, single-entity-owned farm areas. Here in PA, the county seats are approximately in the center of each county.
