Election officials in Worcester are preparing for a recount of the city council-at-large results.

Councilor-at-large candidate Jermoh Kamara announced on Nov. 6 her intention to request a recount.

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.

Kamara placed seventh with 9,334 votes, 23 votes fewer than Councilor-at-Large Morris Bergman’s 9,357 votes

Both candidates pulled paperwork to request a recount, according to a memo the city clerk’s office sent to the city’s Board of Election Commissioners. The board will meet on Wednesday at 5 p.m. to discuss the pending recount.

Kamara and Bergman have until 5 p.m. Nov. 14 to submit their petitions to the election board for certification, the memo reads. To trigger the recount, the candidates need to collect 10 signatures from every ward in the city, the city clerk told MassLive. Worcester has 10 wards.

Bergman said he did not want a recount but in order to contest it, he had to pull papers.

“There were a number of good candidate choices that made for a very competitive race,” Bergman said about the unofficial results. “The voters had many good choices at-large to chose from and if you look at the 5th-7th place finishes, not a lot of votes separated them.”

Kamara did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Wednesday.

The city will be responsible for the operational costs associated with the recount, according to the city clerk’s office. The recount method will be chosen at the discretion of the candidates who filed the petition.

There are two types of recount methods: recount by hand and recount by machine.

The preliminary estimated cost for a hand recount is $106,600, according to the city clerk’s memo.

Of the estimated money, $52,800 will be spent on election workers who will conduct the recount.

The rest of the funds will go toward police assigned to the recount ($16,000), overtime costs for city clerk employees ($17,000), recount materials ($7,000), operational costs for public school facilities ($7,400) and ballot delivery along with facility setup ($6,400)

The preliminary estimated cost for a machine recount would be $14,100, according to the memo.

The cost breakdown includes $4,400 for election workers, $2,800 for police, $3,500 for city clerk office employee overtime, $3,000 for materials and $400 for operational costs of facilities."

The city clerk told the commissioners that a hand recount is a “time-consuming and human-error prone process compared to machine recounts.”

Bergman said he prefers a machine recount as it is less expensive.

Kamara did not immediately respond about which method she prefers.

If a hand recount is chosen, it will be done on Nov. 22 and Nov. 23, at the North High School gymnasium, according to the city clerk. The machine recount, if chosen, will be done at city hall on Nov. 22.