With 100% of precincts reporting, Matt Bevin is ahead by only 83 votes… 
KENTUCKY – The race for the Republican gubernatorial election went down to the wire and then some Tuesday night.
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After 214,187 votes were counted, Louisville businessman Matt Bevin held an 83-vote lead over Commissioner of Agriculture James Comer, but Comer said late Tuesday night that he owed it to his supporters to ask for a recanvass.
According to the secretary of state’s office, a recanvass will be conducted at 9 a.m. May 28. In a recanvass, printed vote totals are checked against figures sent to the state Board of Elections. No individual votes are actually recounted.
Bevin took the stage at his election-night gathering in Louisville at about 10:15 p.m., asking the crowd: “How about this race?”
Bevin, just one year removed from getting trounced in the Republican U.S. Senate primary, sounded a triumphant note even though the Associated Press had not yet called the race and Comer was pressing ahead with a recanvass (read more)
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