Worcester City Council candidate calls for a recount
A candidate who ran for Worcester city councilor-at-large and lost announced Thursday she will demand a recount.
Jermoh Kamara, the president of the Massachusetts Organization of African Descendants , ran for city councilor-at-large but was not one of the top six vote-earners who were elected to the council.
The city's charter states that the six councilor-at-large candidates who receive the most votes will be elected to serve.
The candidate who earned the most votes for councilor-at-large on Tuesday was Mayor Joseph Petty, followed by Council Vice Chair and Councilor-at-Large Khrystian King, Councilor-at-Large Kathleen Toomey, Former City Councilor Gary Rosen, tax consultant Satya Mitra and Councilor-at-Large Morris Bergman, according to unofficial results.
Kamara earned 9,334 votes, 23 fewer than Bergman's total of 9,357, according to unofficial tallies.
"With 26,126 ballots cast citywide, the unofficial results currently show a margin of just 23 votes in the at-large race," Kamara wrote on Facebook. "Given that extremely narrow difference, I will be requesting a recount to ensure that every vote is accurately counted and that every voter's voice is heard."
Kamara said the decision is not about second-guessing the ballot counting process but instead about "democracy and the value of each person's voice."
"No matter what the final result shows, I remain deeply committed to serving Worcester, the city that gave my family a home when we arrived here as refugees, and the community that continues to inspire me every day," she wrote.
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