EAST PROVIDENCE — The recount for the city’s unresolved high-profile races for City Council and School Committee is scheduled for this morning.

Mayor Joseph Larisa Jr. trails former assistant Schools Supt. Isadore Ramos by 22 votes in the council-at large race. School Committee Chairman Antone Gouveia Jr. is also behind in his reelection bid. Political newcomer Steven Santos has a 21-vote lead over Gouveia for the Ward 4 committee seat.

Recounts for three other East Bay races will occur tomorrow. Votes cast for seven Portsmouth Town Council seats will be fed through the ballot machines again at the request of Mark Katzman, a first-time Democratic candidate who fell 24 votes shy of winning a seat. The eighth-ranked candidate in the Tiverton race for seven Town Council seats also asked for a recount. Arthur R. Wyman Jr. is 6 votes behind Paul E. Carroll.

And the votes cast for House District 72, which includes parts of Portsmouth, Middletown and Newport, will also be rechecked. Republican John Robitaille is on the losing end of a 13-vote spread in his bid to unseat Democratic state Rep. Amy G. Rice.

The Ramos-Larisa race will still not conclude after the recount. Larisa and Cranston mayoral candidate Allan Fung — who still trailed Democrat Michael T. Napolitano after his requested recount yesterday — asked Superior Court Judge Stephen J. Fortunato Jr. to decide whether candidates can have access to ballots that are rejected by the machines. The state Supreme Court ruled last week that such ballots must be photocopied and set aside for public viewing.

It is unclear how many ballots will be rejected by the machines. Larisa suspects there will be “a number of them” for his race. He said he knew of 1,600 so-called “undervotes” — votes in certain races that go unregistered by the machines — and eight “overvotes,” which are ballots that include a vote for both candidates in a race.

Ramos’s campaign manager, Robert Rodericks, said he believes there are about 100 under and over votes.

“For his own good, I don’t know why he won’t concede,” Rodericks said yesterday of Larisa. “Like old generals, he’s not going away.”

Larisa is also asking Fortunato to include 31 provisional votes — which he describes as ballots made by voters who were not at their designated polling places — into the tally. Fung, Larisa and all those involved are scheduled to be in court tomorrow for a hearing on those questions.

“Am I going to win them [the provisional votes] 27 to 4? Not likely, but every ballot should be counted,” Larisa said at a council meeting, possibly his final meeting, last week. “I thought I always knew how Al Gore felt, but now I do. I wish I had 23 more people out there, but it didn’t happen this time.”

Said Ramos, “[Larisa] can quote all the numbers he wants. He knows [it’s unlikely he’ll win], that’s why he gave his swan song last week.”

As far as the looming court decisions, Ramos said, “That’s what we have the state Board of Elections for. I trust them. I put faith in them.”

When polls closed, the two were separated by 12 votes with Ramos ahead. Larisa led 13 polling places and Ramos had the lead in the other 13 sites. After absentee ballots and mail-ins were counted, Ramos added to his lead by another 10 votes. In all, Ramos has 8,215 votes to Larisa’s 8,193 votes.

It is their third matchup in six years. Ramos won the first and Larisa the second.

“It’s back and forth,” Larisa said Tuesday night. “… We’ve been in this boat before. I will support [Ramos]. Townie Pride demands no less.”