New congressman or recount? Ballot review for District 7 & 9

Election alert tonight. Central Florida could either have two new congressmen or two recounts by the time this day ends. Five o'clock tonight marked the deadline for ballots that could decide a winner in Districts 7 and 9. At last check, about 1,700 votes were all that separated Republican Ryan Elijah and Democrat Bail Dalton in District 7. We know Seminole and Volusia County canvassing boards met this afternoon to count the remaining ballots. And in District 9, less than 1,500 votes separate the incumbent Democrat, Darren Soto, and his Republican challenger, Dan Green. People who had problems with their ballots, like signatures that didn't match their driver's license signature, or those who showed up without a voter ID, had until 5 o'clock today to get things like that sorted out. Those votes, along with late-arriving mailed-in ballots from overseas U.S. service members, will decide. the final count. If the results for any candidates are half a percentage point apart or less, that, by Florida law, triggers an automatic recount. Then if that recount margin is even closer, votes must be counted by hand. An overvote, that means that the voter voted for two candidates in the same race when they were only allowed to vote for one. And then there can be undervotes where the voter, like, Colored in the bubble so lightly that a machine couldn't read it, but a human being could. Canvassing board members across central Florida have been meeting all afternoon. As soon as we learn any updates, we'll have them for you here and on the Fox Local app.