Republicans just can't get over the fact they can not rig every election.
Someone like Bevin loses and they just can't accept it.
Did anyone catch that little comment from the KY republican controlled senate Robert Stivers? After Beshear was the apparent winner, KY senate republican Robert Stivers said, "We'll see what we can do about it".
Meaning, they will find some loophole to deny Beshear his victory, or force a recount even though KY law does not have automatic recounts if the numbers are close.
Either that, or KY senate republicans would demand a new election, one were they WOULD rig the outcome in their favor.
Regardless, the whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Republicans in the republican controlled KY state legislation will find some way to deem the election as invalid. Just wait and see.
Stivers said he thought Bevin’s speech declining to concede to Beshear was “appropriate.” He said believes most of the votes that went to Libertarian John Hicks, who received about 2% of the total vote, would have gone to Bevin and made him the clear winner.
"Contested elections for Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be determined by both Houses of the General Assembly, according to such regulations as may be established by law."
Sam Marcosson, a constitutional law professor at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, told The Courier Journal that this language of the state Constitution suggests there must be procedure established by law for a review of a contested election to take place by the House and Senate.
“They can’t just make them up,” Marcosson said.
“If the House and Senate were just to proceed on vague allegations without proof, that raises serious questions about disenfranchisement of the voters who voted for Attorney General Beshear,” Marcosson said. “It’s an extraordinary proposition to suggest that the General Assembly would take vague allegations of unspecified irregularities and call into question a gubernatorial election.”