A date for the Boston City Council vote recount has been set
The recount will start at 9 a.m. on Dec. 7.
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The more than 66,000 votes cast in Boston’s city councilor at-large race will be recounted by hand next month.
The Board of Election Commissioners certified recount petitions filed by the campaigns of Julia Mejia and Alejandra St. Guillen Wednesday after each candidate filed the signatures needed across all of the city’s 22 wards.
The actual recount is slated to begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7 and will continue as needed each day after. Election officials will gather earlier, however, starting on Dec. 5 to open ballot boxes and organize ballots into stacks of 50.
A location for the recount has not yet been announced.
Both Mejia and St. Guillen are vying for a fourth place finish in the election to secure the last of four seats up for grabs.
As officials tallied votes in unofficial results from the Nov. 5 elections, the margin separating the two candidates moved from 10 votes on election night to five last week.
Last Friday, elections officials counted 68 provisional and absentee ballots, widening Mejia’s lead to eight votes.
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