The re-canvass Thursday of last week's votes in Kentucky's Republican gubernatorial race didn't change a thing.
Louisville businessman Matt Bevin still led Kentucky agriculture commissioner James Comer by 83 votes out of more than 214,000 cast.All 120 counties did new printouts Thursday of their vote totals from the May 19 primary and compared them against the totals they sent to the secretary of state on election night.
The results were the same in the four-candidate race, except for Louisville businessman Hal Heiner, who finished third, picking up a vote.
Comer's campaign director put out a statement Thursday afternoon saying that Comer was vacationing in Florida with his family and would issue a statement Friday “about the next steps he will take in the race.” Comer could ask for an official recount, where some ballots would be hand-counted, but he would have to pay for that. He would have to file by the end of business on Friday.
Bevin, if certified by the state board of elections as the winner of the GOP primary, will face the Democratic nominee, Attorney General Jack Conway, in the fall.
