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With less than a year until the deadline, a state official said setting up regional centers for citizens to obtain the ID cards is the fastest option.

Tilley, a Democrat, was instrumental in getting syringe-exchange programs in a big anti-heroin bill when he was chair of the state House Judiciary Committee. Late in the year, Republican Gov. Matt Bevin named him justice secretary. He has often been mentioned as a possible holdover with Democratic Gov.-elect Andy Beshear.

Taylor is among a small number of transition team members who are not from the Louisville-Lexington-Frankfort triangle.

The governor had made unsubstantiated claims that there were “irregularities” in the election, but never provided any evidence to back them up.

Gov. Matt Bevin requested the recanvass after the election night result showed him losing to Steve Beshear by less than 1 percentage point statewide.

The unofficial results of last week’s election showed Beshear defeating Bevin by 5,189 votes, but Bevin has not conceded the race and has not backed up claims that thousands of absentee ballots were improperly counted.

The governor has made unsubstantiated claims that there were deeper problems with the election, laying the groundwork for an election contest. That would mean the race would be decided by the Republican-led legislature.

Beshear tapped his top deputy in the attorney general’s office, J. Michael Brown, to head up his transition team as they begin the process of taking over Kentucky’s executive branch.

Westerfield had a large margin of victory in Christian County but it wasn't enough to win the district.

Voter turnout was several percentage points higher than local election officials had expected.

The nickel tax, which the school board approved to increase the district's bonding capacity, was sought to replace the county's two aging high schools.

The president spoke for more than an hour to a packed crowd at Rupp Arena in Lexington and was joined by both of Kentucky’s U.S. senators and all five of the state’s Republican congressmen.