WARREN — A Newton Falls charter amendment that was winning by 10 votes on the night of the Nov. 8 election ended up getting approved by two votes when outstanding absentee and provisional ballots were included in the count.

The charter amendment is subject to an automatic recount because the margin of victory is within 0.5 of a percent, Stephanie Penrose, elections board director, said. The recount is scheduled for Dec. 6.

“With this equipment, I don’t expect anything to change,” she said. “The equipment is sophisticated.”

The board of elections certified the election results Monday.

The charter amendment will make changes to recall election procedures by requiring a 90-day time limit for getting the required number of signatures on a petition from the original filing date and having the recall placed on the soonest primary or general election for which the recall can be scheduled.

When votes were counted on Election Day it was leading 663 to 653. The 10-vote lead had a margin of victory of 0.76 of a percent.

But there were still 27 uncounted ballots in the village. Of those, 26 voted on this particular charter amendment with nine in support and 17 in opposition.

With those votes included, the lead shrunk to two votes — 672 to 670. The margin of victory is 0.14 of a percent.

Overall, seven charter amendments were on the ballot in Newton Falls. Four of them passed.

Board of elections employees on Dec. 6 will count by hand the ballots of one of the village’s four precincts and compare that outcome to those counted on the optical scanners, Penrose said. If the totals are the same, the results are certified. If they are different, another hand count of those precincts is done and compared to the scanners. If those are different, a third round is held and if it is still not the same, all of the ballots are recounted by hand.

The board is required to count at least 5 percent of the ballots in a recount as long as that is at least one full precinct.

Because Newton Falls has four precincts, counting one will mean about 25 percent of the vote will be included in the recount, Penrose said.

The recount should take about an hour, she said.

No races in the county were impacted by the inclusion of the outstanding absentee and provisional ballots and no others were close enough for automatic recounts.

Outstanding absentee ballots are those requested by voters by mail that didn’t arrive at boards of elections until after Election Day. Those ballots had to be postmarked by Nov. 7, the day before Election Day, and arrive at the board no later than Nov. 18.

Provisional ballots are used when the names or addresses of people don’t match their voter registration information with boards of elections as well as if voters don’t have proper identification when voting, their names don’t appear on the official poll list, they already requested an absentee ballot or if signatures, in the opinion of precinct officers, do not match the signatures on registration forms, among other scenarios.