BREAKING: Kentucky Republican Gov. Bevin concedes the governor's race to his Democratic opponent, Andy Beshear.
Bevin lost by more than 5,000 votes to Beshear, the state's Democratic attorney general. On election night,Bevin said he hoped there was"as little disruption as well" in the transition between his and Beshear's administration.
Recanvassing means checking results at the county level, verifying the accuracy of vote totals reported from voting machines and checking absentee ballots, to ensure that there were no errors in transmission from polling places to the Secretary of State.“The reason we’re doing this — we want the people of Kentucky to have absolute confidence that their votes were counted as they should have been counted,” he said last week.
The Kentucky Constitution requires governors be sworn into office on the fifth Tuesday after an election; this year, that's Dec. 10.Jane C. Timm is a political reporter for NBC News, fact checking elections and covering voting rights.
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