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Election results spark at least one recanvassFree Access


At least one race for county office will be recanvassed and another likely will be as well, County Clerk Winston Meade said.
Meade said William Gross, Democratic candidate for magistrate in District 2, has asked for a recanvass after he finished just two votes behind opponent Alban B. Watts II.
In the District 5 Constable’s race, Democratic candidates Eugene Williams and Steve Damron finished in a tie with 153 votes each.
In statewide races, former State Representative Charles Booker won a landslide victory both in Letcher County and in the state to become the first African American candidate to win the nomination for U.S. Senator in Kentucky. Booker, of Louisville, will face incumbent Sen. Rand Paul in the November Election.
Changes in the state election laws and a requirement by the state that counties switch to paper ballots caused delays in the vote count, with races here not counted until late Tuesday night, even though the county had just 13 polling places rather than the 30 it had before the Republican controlled legislature rewrote election laws, drawing criticism of attempts at voter suppression. Turnout on Tuesday was just 19.6 percent, compared to 38.9 percent during the last county primary in 2018 and 34 percent in 2014.
Complete unofficial election returns are below.

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