Good news bump...there will be an automatic recount because how close the totals are, but it looks like Kent will win.
If the difference is less than 2,000 AND there is less than a 1% difference, there will be a machine recount. Those hardly ever change by more than 10-20 votes.
For a hand recount, the difference has to be less than 150 votes. That’s not going to happen.
Trend is strongly in favor of Kent. This is all but locked up to be in the top two.