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Jose Garcia

(2,588 posts) Wed Nov 6, 2019, 04:04 PM Nov 2019

Now Matt Bevin is going to lose twice!

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Now Matt Bevin is going to lose twice! (Original Post) Jose Garcia Nov 2019 OP

Bevin could simply contest the election, and the GOP legislature could steal it for him Fiendish Thingy Nov 2019 #1

pardon evertonfc Nov 2019 #4

Here cilla4progress Nov 2019 #2

A prick from day 1 Corgigal Nov 2019 #3

Fiendish Thingy

(15,551 posts)

1. Bevin could simply contest the election, and the GOP legislature could steal it for him

Reply to Jose Garcia (Original post)

Wed Nov 6, 2019, 04:25 PM

Nov 2019

Kentucky law allows a candidate to contest the outcome of an election, which throws it to the legislature to decide, regardless of the will of the voters. The last time they did this was in 1899.

evertonfc

(1,713 posts)

4. pardon

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 6, 2019, 04:48 PM

Nov 2019

but it's a little more complicated than that. Absence evidence of fraud or some other oddity, it won't happen and if it did, a left of center KY Supreme Court would not accept it