A decision on the recount was expected from a Dunedin District Court judge at 5pm today.
When asked last night if she planned to go ahead with the recount, Ms Butler replied she had "nothing further to add" to reasons given in her affidavit and reported yesterday.
Ms Butler confirmed on Tuesday she had applied for a full recount of the election results, claiming the close vote - she was just 43 votes adrift of Cr Colin Weatherall, the last councillor to make the cut - and similarity of names on the polling paper, as reasons to check almost 34,000 voting papers.
In her affidavit, she said she was aware there would be costs to the council, and did not make the request lightly, but "part of my motivation in seeking election in the first place is that I believe there are areas where public money is being wasted and I wish to do my part in reducing this waste".
Electionz.com chief returning officer Warwick Lamp said yesterday the system his company used to count the voting forms in the first place was robust, and it was unlikely there would "many, if any" changes if a recount were done.
The voting papers sat in a Christchurch storage facility yesterday, awaiting a judge's decision.
Under the Local Electoral Act 2001, a district court judge must be satisfied an applicant has reasonable grounds to believe that the declaration of an election result is incorrect.
Dunedin electoral officer Pam Jordan said the court requested further information from the council late yesterday afternoon, and that would be provided today.
She confirmed information leaked to the Otago Daily Times, that the preliminary quote for the recount from electionz.com was between $60,000 and $70,000.
That figure was a "rough estimate", as the final cost would depend on what the judge ruled.
The cost would cover what was expected to be 570 "data key hours" over four days to recount the voting papers.
Electionz.com would be required to hire 20 people for the work and they would reopen the 680 batches of 50 voting papers, check the ranking given to 11 of the 39 candidates, and key in the results.
Asked who would be expected to pay for a recount, Ms Jordan said that question would be better directed to the court, but suspected "the costs normally fall on the council".
Mr Lamp said his memory was that, in all recount cases to date, the applicant had got back a deposit they had filed with the court, and the council involved had borne the cost.
He explained the votes from batches of voting papers were entered into the electionz.com system by a data inputter. A second person did the same, and any differences between the two were checked by a third person.
Ms Butler has filed a $750 deposit, but sought an assurance from the judge there would be no costs above that figure.
She understood the STV voting system Dunedin used had not been challenged so far.
Lee Vandervis, who won a seat on the Dunedin City Council this month, said he had not applied for a recount at the last election, despite being behind by only four votes, because he had "no faith the recount would be done any better than the original" count.
He did not believe the STV system Dunedin used was a good one, and said council staff should not be involved in any way with the voting.
