Matt Bevin concedes Kentucky gubernatorial race to Andy Beshear following recanvass
by Emily Larsen
| November 14, 2019 02:27 PM
Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin conceded defeat to Democratic challenger Andy Beshear after Bevin's challenge to razor-thin gubernatorial election results last week did not alter the results of the race.
"I truly wish the Attorney General well as the next governor of this state as he assumes these responsibilities," Bevin said in a press conference Thursday.
Beshear, Kentucky's attorney general, led Bevin by 5,136 votes in the state's certified results following last week's election — about 0.36% of the total., but Bevin refused to concede and cited “irregularities" in the election process.
Bevin initiated a recanvassing the day after the election, a process in which county election boards recheck vote totals and voting machines and re-report vote totals to the Secretary of State in part to ensure there were no math or reporting errors. In statement to the press, Bevin alleged that there were "thousands of absentee ballots that were illegally counted" and that "a number of machines that did not work properly, so ballots were taken and put in open boxes."
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