Kentucky to Review Primary Votes Per Sanders’ Request

Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Grimes announced that the US state of Kentucky will review vote totals from its May 17 primary election.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The US state of Kentucky will review vote totals from its May 17 primary election after receiving a request from Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Grimes announced via Twitter on Tuesday.

"County boards of elections will convene at 9 a.m. local time on Thurs[day], May 26 to conduct the recanvass," Grimes tweeted. "We have received a request from Bernie Sanders for recanvass of the vote totals in May 17 Dem presidential primary."

County boards of elections will convene at 9 a.m. local time on Thurs., May 26 to conduct the recanvass. #kyelect #GoVoteKY

— Alison L. Grimes (@KySecofState) May 24, 2016

​Grimes explained the purpose of the recanvass is to verify the accuracy of the vote totals that came from each of the voting machines, not to recount individual ballots.

Even if Sanders picks up an additional delegate or delegates based on the recanvass, he is still far from the total number of delegates needed to win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced this week she needed just 90 additional delegates to secure the Democratic Party's nomination when the number of superdelegates is included in the total, while Sanders would need 850 delegates.

Superdelegates are unelected delegates allowed to vote for the candidate of their choice at the Democratic National Convention. They make up about 15 percent of all the delegates, about 714 of the total 4,765. The rest of the delegates the contenders earn via the primary and caucus election process.