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Despite what you may have heard from several news outlets, the D.C. Board of Elections says it has not made a decision about whether it can include Senator Bernie Sanders on the primary ballot.

“We haven’t determined anything,” says Margarita Mikhaylova, D.C. BOE spokesperson. “Nothing’s been decided. Nobody is on, nobody is off, nobody is kicked anywhere.”

So statements like this one from Fox News—”The D.C. Board of Elections determined it cannot certify Sanders for the June 14 primary ballot because the local Democratic Party submitted his name after the legally binding deadline passed”—are just plain not true, says Mikhaylova.

The whole kerfuffle started when the D.C. Democratic State Committee submitted the paperwork from both the Sanders and Hillary Clinton campaign to the D.C. Board of Elections after the official deadline. (In D.C., you can pay a $2,500 fee to avoid collecting the 1,000 signatures necessary for the ballot. The Sanders campaign opted for the fee, whereas the Clinton campaign paid the fee in addition to collecting the signatures.)

Robert Brannum, the sergeant-of-arms of the Ward 5 Democrats and noted car-honker, filed a BOE complaint against the Sanders campaign, saying “It would be politically revolutionary to permit a candidate flaunt District of Columbia election rules designed to protect the voters.” The BOE will hold a hearing over the complaint this Wednesday. But don’t expect an answer that day—Mikhaylova says the board still has to deliberate.

In the meantime, the D.C. Council will consider emergency legislation to allow Sanders on the ballot this week, according to the D.C. Dems.

The office of At-large Councilmember Anita Bonds, who also serves as the chair of the D.C. Dems, would not comment on the emergency legislation. The D.C. Dems say Bonds will introduce the legislation.

“We are doing everything to make sure that Bernie Sanders will be on the ballot and that this issue is resolved,” Natasha McKenzie, spokesperson for the D.C. Dems, says. Three separate councilmembers told the Post they’d be willing to support getting Sanders on the ballot.

Mikhaylova declined to speculate on how such legislation would impact Wednesday’s hearing.

Sanders’ campaign has expressed confidence that he will appear on the ballot.