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"The unofficial winner of Kentucky's Democratic presidential primary remains Hillary Clinton," Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes said at a press conference on Thursday. | Getty Kentucky recanvass confirms Clinton as winner

A recanvass of the Kentucky Democratic primary results confirmed that Hillary Clinton is the winner of the contest, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes announced on Thursday.

"The unofficial winner of Kentucky's Democratic presidential primary remains Hillary Clinton," Grimes said at a press conference on Thursday. "The recanvass vote totals which were submitted to my office today will become the official vote totals. The Kentucky Board of Elections will certify on May 31st."

On election night, Grimes said, the unofficial vote count found "there was a 1924 [vote] difference between Hillary Clinton and Sen. Sanders."

The recanvass results found that Clinton still was ahead of Sanders, this time by 1911 votes, Grimes said.

The difference between the initial and final results was because four counties made corrections to the results they reported on election night. The changes, according to Grimes' office, was because of an absentee ballot voting discrepancy in two counties and changes in two other counties.

The recanvass findings by Grimes followed Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign's call for a review of the May 17 election results.

Grimes, a Clinton supporter, had called the race for Clinton on election night even though the Associated Press deemed the contest too close to call.

The recanvass was a review of voting machines and absentee ballots in all 120 of the state's counties.

In a statement, the Vermont senator said he accepted the results.

"We accept the results in Kentucky. We are very pleased that we split the delegates in a state with a closed primary in which independents cannot vote and where Secretary Clinton defeated Barack Obama by 35 points in 2008," Sanders said in a statement.

