Mayor Matt Ryan's lead is shrinking against Republican Rich David but not by much.

Action News reporter Reed Buterbaugh explains the process underway by the Board of Elections, to sort out any other errors.

Board of Elections officials begin re-canvassing vote totals from Tuesday's election.

They found two districts in the city's Southside were counted twice, cutting Mayor Matt Ryan's lead against Rich David to 60, instead of 61.

"That is basically making sure that all the receipts that came in from the voting machines match up to the calls that came in on election night," said Mary Pines, Deputy Commissioner for the Board of Elections.

The re-canvassing process should be complete by Friday.

Then the board will review votes from Johnson City.

New voting machines keep a computer record of vote totals that are printed out.

Something that is helping board officials double-check the numbers.

"Obviously the process is not going to be easier with the paper but it is paper and every vote will be counted and there can be no confusion," Pines said.

Too close to call races are more common in New York because it's one of the easiest states for a third-party candidate to get on the ballot.

"Doug Drazen is Matt Ryan's best friend," said John McNulty, Political Science professor at Binghamton University. "You've got to assume most of Drazen's support came from people who were dissatisfied by the incumbent. So the anti-incumbent vote was split and it's very likely that if Drazen were not in the race Ryan may have lost in a route."

And even as the political division widens between voters leads to tighter outcomes.

The one vote difference in Johnson City's dissolution proposition is still rare.

"I figure the mathematical odds of this happening are a little less, a little more than 1 in 2000," McNulty said.

Both elections remain so close, the board of elections will conduct a hand recount next week.

The turnout for Binghamton's mayor race had almost four-thousand fewer voters than the one in 2005.

Both the Mayor race and the dissolution will come down to absentee and affidavit ballots.

Those will be counted November 12th.