A Superior Court justice has reserved his decision on whether another recount will be held in Kitchener's ward nine election.
He is expected to review the arguments and look at other cases, but hasn't indicated when a decision will be released.
Candidate Debbie Chapman lost the municipal council seat to Frank Etherington by one vote.
An electronic recount of the ballots in November gave the same results. Both candidates and their scrutineers monitored that four hour process.
Chapman had petitioned the court for a manual recount of the nearly 4,000 ballots because the results were in doubt.
The manual recount hinges on two ballots out of a total of 40 where voters made more than one mark, making it unclear who it was intended to support.
These so-called ‘overvotes' were excluded them from the vote count.
Chapman's team says those two ballots show an intention to support her, however the City of Kitchener says another recount isn't needed.
Sian Williams is the assistant city solicitor, she says "The city's position is…the original election results and the recount results were held fully in accordance with the Municipal Elections Act, that they were fully and fairly done."
She adds that the issue was not raised on election night or during the electronic recount.
Hal Mattson is Chapman's lawyer, he says "Our position was that we really didn't have an opportunity to, it wasn't the proper place to do it and the court was the proper place to do it if we saw any problems."
Both candidates say they believe the legal proceedings have been fair, despite the delay in reaching a decision.
Meanwhile Etherington was sworn in as ward nine councillor last week.
