The New York City mayoral race has added a layer of confusion — and frustration for at least one candidate — after elections officials mistakenly tabulated about 135,000 test ballots that weren’t supposed to be counted.
Officials on Tuesday released the first updated count for the Democratic primary since the election a week ago. When they did, it showed that second-place candidate Kathryn Garcia had narrowed Eric Adams’ lead to about 16,000 votes.
Later, however, officials retracted the update and said the test ballots were never removed from the computer. They said they hoped to have a more accurate update in the race on Wednesday.
The race, for the first time in New York City, is using a ranked choice system — which determines a winner by tabulating the ranked preferences on each ballot. Since no candidate was the No. 1 choice on 50% of ballots, the winner will be determined by assessing who was most popular among voters’ rankings. The process works like a series of instant runoffs.
Both Adams and Garcia asked for explanations after the discrepancy was found.
“Today’s mistake by the Board of Election was unfortunate,” Adams tweeted. “It is critical that New Yorkers are confident in their electoral system, especially as we rank votes in a citywide election for the first time.”
Garcia, who is likely to lose some of the ground she made up in the erroneous update, called the miscalculation “deeply troubling” and said it “requires a much more transparent and complete explanation.”
Democratic hopeful Andrew Yang finished in third place, according to last week’s figures, and dropped out of the race.
The figures do not yet include about 125,000 absentee ballots. Officials said they expect absentee ballots to be included in the tally in a scheduled update on July 6.
The Republican primary, conversely, was a two-man contest. Curtis Sliwa won with almost 70% of the vote and will face the winner of the Democratic race during the general election in November.
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What do you know? The fraudulent voting system saga continues. Hey, Libs and Media—anything to see or just a quirk?
Not a quirk… It’s a “Conspiracy Theory”!
Count ALL the votes!
Nothing to see here.
Move along..
This is not the fraud you are looking for.
You’re right. This is NOT the fraud we’re looking for. It’s comical that in states like New York and California there was tampering with the votes and Trump never stood a chance of winning either of those states. The fraud that everyone should be concerned about is the fraud that happened in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. That’s where the election was stolen.
WE SHOULD BE concerned about fraud PERIOD. REGARDLESS of whether it would have made a difference in whether trump could have won that state or not…
New York City Administration:
1) Competent
2) Efficient
3) Honest
4) Incorruptible
NOT!!
“Mistakenly Counted” ??
Jeez, I’m stunned !
Just more voter fraud to win their absolute power and absolute control over us and our paychecks.
And, folks, it’s just more proof of their voter fraud, and how they work that voter fraud!
AND IF someone worked for a PRIVATE company and made THAT MANY bloody mistakes, they’d have been FIRED BY NOW.
SO why is no one in this office, BEING FIRED for that overt level of gross incompetence!
If it were a private company they would be fired because the company wants excellence. But government encourages the corruption so they can win and therefore make more money! Backwards!
As the joke often goes. THE MORE incompetent one is, the FURTHER IN the govt you will rise.
Democrats can’t help themselves. They have to cheat–even within a party primary. I’d like to add “unbelievable” as a comment, but sadly this is totally believable.
How funny – the NYT is speechless…hahaha. There was no cheating in 2020 therfore no cheating now.
YET we STILL HERE how “TRUMP Cheated to win in 2016…”
LOL! LOL ROF!
REally????? Who would have guessed?
Whomever is the worst, leftist, Democrat candidate – is the one who will win the NY mayoral election. Anyone who has confidence for an honest election , in a Blue State is clearly delusional.
Pre-prepared cheat to make sure far left candidate won. However, the gap was too large for this cheat to close it so they need a timeout to prepare a better cheat for their candidate.
As biden said. THE LEFT HAS THE BIGGEST and most efficient VOTER FRAUD machine out there.
Can’t believe they resorted to this Ranked Choice idiocy! They need to do their party primary “old school” – candidate who gets the most votes wins. If 10 nitwit Libs run in a primary, one get 10.000001 percent of the vote, and the rest gets less then 10 percent each, not really hard to figure out who is the winner! Alas, our Dems will do anything to muddy the waters in the name of “fairness”.
Well, shiver my timbers!!!
How could this be, irregularities in processing votes after an election after Democrats swore up and down after the 2016 election that such things could not happen. unless their favorite nominee didn’t win!
Nah, there’s never any election fraud! Would they have told us had it been something other than a primary
Let me guess, they were all for bidan.
Na.. All for Deblasio!
The “voting rights act” in practice. Stats show that 5 out of 3 voters are democrats.
AND it also shows all the dead vote democrat, REGARDLESS of what party they were in life.