WEST MELBOURNE, Fla. — The West Melbourne city council race is now officially tied, and could be decided by a coin toss.

Wednesday, the Brevard Supervisor of Elections did both a machine and hand recount which closed the two vote gap that initially separated Adam Gaffney and Stephen Phrampus for the 5th council seat.

A few overseas ballots are still coming in before the 10-day deadline of certifying the race on Friday, so the results could change.

According to the West Melbourne city charter, if a race is tied after certification, the winner will be declared by “drawing lots” at a council meeting, which in this case will mean tossing a coin.

Brevard Supervisor of Elections Tim Bobanic said the race could have been much different had some voters read the instructions and properly filled out their ballots.

“We had lots of ballots where there were no votes marked in the West Melbourne race,” said Bobanic. “They marked president, they marked the front of the ballot, a lot of people just completely skipped the race, or they didn’t mark up to five candidates — they may have marked one, two or three candidates — all of those ballots were reviewed to make sure we are capturing the voters intent correctly.”

The canvassing board will meet at the Supervisor of Elections Office to certify the results.

That’s when the candidates will know if more votes came in over the next day or so to declare the winner, or if they’ll be heading to a coin toss.