Bernie Sanders Asks For 'Recanvass' Of Kentucky Primary Votes

Bernie Sanders is calling for a recanvass of the vote in Kentucky, where the Vermont Senator narrowly lost the state's Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton last week. It appears to be a strategy to try and capture the one remaining delegate left unawarded after Kentucky's razor-thin primary vote.

"Pursuant to KY statute (KRS 117.305) I hereby request a full and complete recanvass of every one of the voting machines and absentee ballots in all precincts and all 120 counties involving the primary," Sanders said in a letter to Kentucky Secretary of State Alison L. Grimes.

In a statement of her own, Grimes said that the purpose of a recanvassing is "to verify the accuracy of the vote totals reported from the voting machines."

"County boards of elections will convene at 9 a.m. local time on May 26 to recheck and recanvass the voting machines, per Kentucky law," Grimes' statement said. The boards will notify the candidates of the location of the recanvass. Immediately upon completion of the recanvass, the boards will file their recanvass reports with the Secretary of State."

She said Sanders trails Clinton by just 2,000 votes in Kentucky.

Even if the audit turns in his favor, it likely won't be of much help to Sanders, who split Kentucky's delegates evenly with Clinton at 27 apiece, despite losing by just half a percentage point. At state were 55 delegates, and one delegate still remains unawarded since the race was so close.

If he were to win the extra delegate, he would still trail Clinton by more than 250 delegates with just nine votes remaining.