Answer to Kentucky recount....................

From CNN, again, are they trying to cover their butts? Why the sudden articles that would appear to favor Bernie Sanders?

"But is Kentucky actually over?
More people voted for Martin O'Malley in Kentucky than the margin between Clinton and Sanders at the end of the night, a margin close enough to make a recount possible.
With all precincts reporting, Clinton held a 1,923 vote lead over Bernie Sanders, the office of Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes told CNN.
The state's results don't become official until May 31. Sanders has a week to request in writing a re-canvass that would involve Kentucky officials manually checking voting machines to make sure that the totals are correct."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/18/politics/kentucky-oregon-primary-highlight...

It goes on to point out that Lundergan-Grimes is a big Hillary fan and proclaimed Hillary the presumptive winner on this razor-thin margin before all the votes were in. People voted for O'Malley? Hard to believe, he's been out of the race for awhile. I understand that is how they stole votes in Ca's governor's race with ARRRRnold. An analysis of the votes showed that people way down the ticket received a lot of votes in area's where they didn't even run or where anyone would know their names. Instead of increasing Arnold's vote count they shifted votes from him opponent so it would not be as obvious a fix. I would be interested to see all those O'Malley votes, would have to be over 2000. Keep the heat on, we need real elections, not this BS that posses as elections. If we were a third-world country, the UN would be all over this!

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elenacarlena's picture

with voting machines. The votes for O'Malley or "other" don't bother me, though. That's just people saying they don't like either Hill or Bern. We all know why people might not like Hill. I can see relatively conservative Democratic Kentuckians also not liking Bern. Thus about 5% protest votes. Sounds about right to me. 0.5% difference between the two candidates, though - that's thin enough that I think the votes should be rechecked by hand. Of course, it will result in more smears of sour grapes, but who cares? They smear him thusly anyway.

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jwa13's picture

inequality; percentage of population below the poverty line; healthcare outcomes -- the U.S. IS a third-world country. Maybe the U.N. monitors should just step in, anyway.

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When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said “How well he spoke”.
When Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said “Let us march”.

Maybe we can get a recount and promote c99

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Thumb's picture

Just as a double-check on the machines.

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Joshua A. Douglas, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, investigated, any candidate with over 25 percent of the vote could request a recount within 10 days of election day by filing petition with the circuit court. However, there is a catch — the candidate requesting the recount must pay for the cost, and the statute doesn't specifically define how much that will be. For campaigns on their last legs, the cost could be too much to make a recount worth while. Source

More here: Kentucky Recount Laws

Cost for Candidate-Initiated Recounts:
Paid entirely by initiator
Initiator pays deposit or bond before recount

Candidates must pay a bond before the recount, for all costs associated with the recount, in an amount to be determined by the Circuit Judge. See KRS 120.095 and 120.185.

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