DANVILLE — The two Vermilion County clerk candidates in the Nov. 2, 2010, election won't know whether the court will grant a full recount in that race until at least next week.

A hearing on Republican candidate Dennis Miller's petition for a recount ran all day Friday in Danville. It's set to continue on Thursday, with closing arguments beginning at 9 a.m.

The official canvass showed that longtime incumbent Lynn Foster, a Danville Democrat, won the clerk's race by a single vote. She garnered 11,182 votes to Miller's 11,181.

Following a discovery recount of ballots and other election documents in 25 percent of the total voting precincts in December, Miller, of Danville, filed a petition for a recount. In his petition, he alleged that a number of mistakes were made in the election.

On Friday, his attorney — Robert Day of Peoria — presented evidence that included three ballots for Foster that weren't initialed by an election judge and a number of ballots for Miller that were placed in envelopes designated for spoiled ballots.

He made a point of showing that the ballots themselves were not marked "spoiled" or signed by an election judge.

Other evidence Day presented included:

A ballot for Miller from Danville's Precinct 1 that was marked as "spoiled" and not counted that was signed by two election judges for Danville's Precinct 2.

At least six ballots for Foster that were marked with an "X" or check mark rather than a filled-in oval.

Several ballots for Foster had other distinguishing marks, which, Day argued, should have been found defective and not counted.

Foster's attorney, Jack Martin of Danville, presented evidence that showed ballots for Miller also were marked with an "X" or a check mark. He also presented voter applications and vote tabulations from a number of precincts, where Day raised questions about spoiled ballots. In each case, the number of applications matched the number of votes that were cast.