CHARLOTTE, NC —  A day after the election, the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections Office is still hard at work.  Elections director Michael Dickerson said  it will take several days to count the remaining ballots, which include absentee and provisional ballots.  Dickerson said there were several close races that may have to be recounted.  “So at that point in time, we literally go through every ballot and run them all through the readers again,” Dickerson said.  Dickerson said  NC Senate District 42 which covers southeast Mecklenburg County and newly redrawn House District 105 which covers parts of east and south Mecklenburg could end up in a recount.  “That is a process that takes quite a while. So it’ll be at least a few days, probably 5 or 6, to get everything done to do that,” Dickerson said.   In the House District 105 race, longtime democrat-turned republican Tricia Cotham leads  democrat Nicole Sidman by less than 300 votes.  Cotham declared victory on social media.  Sidman’s campaign tells WCCB they will request a recount after the absentee and provisional ballots are counted.  In Senate District 42, democrat Woodson Bradley leads republican Stacie McGinn by 27 votes.   Bradley posted on Instagram that “there are provisional ballots that need to be counted and we expect a recount.”  She also said  she’s confident she won. In North Carolina, the candidate trailing can call for a recount if the unofficial result is separated by less than 0.5 of a percentage point.  Elections officials said recounts will begin on November 20.