Candidate Debbie Chapman is expected to petition the Superior Court next week to order a manual recount, after she was defeated by one vote in the municipal election.
She says there are reasonable grounds to believe the results are in doubt.
Chapman says "I think there's a big difference between puting a ballot into a tabulator and actually manually counting them and looking at each ballot, what the tabulator doesn't do is recognize voters' intent."
A recount of nearly 4,000 ballots on Nov. 3 gave the same results as on election night, with Frank Etherington beating Chapman by one vote for the ward nine seat.
The city clerk ran all the ballots a second time at Kitchener City Hall, with candidates and scrutineers watching the four hour process.
She is making the petition for a manual recount under Section 58 of the Municipal Elections Act.
Etherington reacts
Etherington says this situation just adds to the uncertainty for the city and for voters.
He says "It creates, continues, that state of limbo for me, for the voters of ward 9 and for the city."
Etherington says he's already attended orientation sessions for new councillors and he points out it's up to the courts now to decide whether a further recount is justified.
But he adds during the first recount there was nothing identified by his team, or by Chapman's team, outside of ten ballots that both sides ultimately agreed to, that appeared to be out of line.
