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There will be mandatory vote recounts Thursday in the Mount Pleasant and Isle of Palms municipal elections, because of small margins separating winning and losing council candidates, but the county’s director of elections does not expect the results of Tuesday’s election to change. A state law, written when most votes were recorded on paper ballots, requires a recount when winning and losing candidates are separated by less than one percent of the vote. Most votes are cast electronically now, so the only votes to recount are paper absentee ballots that were sent by mail, according to Marilyn Bowers, executive director of the Charleston County Board of Elections and Voter Registration. “We do not expect any change in the winners,” Bowers said. “There are not enough (votes to count) to make a difference.” In Mount Pleasant and Isle of Palms, the top four vote-getters won council seats. In each election, the council candidate with the fifth-highest vote total was close enough behind to trigger the mandatory recount. Read more in Thursday’s editions of The Post and Courier.

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