Adams, who had a 9-point lead over Wiley and Garcia last week, now barely tops the field with 51.1% of the vote, compared to 48.9% for Garcia.
On election night, Adams had a lead of 75,512 votes in first-choice balloting. But after transferring votes for eliminated candidates, his lead has tightened to just 15,908 votes.
Adams said in a statement that the new numbers “raised serious questions” and that his campaign was seeking answers from the Board of Elections to explain why Tuesday’s vote total was nearly 142,000 ballots higher than last week’s totals.
Civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley, the favorite of national progressives, had been in second place until the last round of ranked-choice counting on Tuesday. Garcia overtook her by just 3,806 votes in ranked-choice voting results released Tuesday, which showed Adams ranked just higher in voter preferences than his opponents.
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As it turns out, election workers forgot to remove tens of thousands of test ballots from the system before putting real ballots through the RCV tabulator.
The @BOENYC forgot to take out tens of thousands of practice ballots out of the system before running the RCV simulation today, which resulted in the “discrepancies.”
Did they leave De Blasio’s pizza ballot in there, too? Was wondering why so many write-ins for green peppers.
The Board of Elections issued a statement Tuesday evening, which explained the situation, though the last sentence seemed to be missing a word.
The Board issued a corrected statement – strangely in a different font – amid intense Twitter mockery of the day’s proceedings, or should we say, regressions.
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Confusion reigns after unofficial NYC primary results released Adam Brewster
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New York City s Democratic mayoral primary is facing major questions Tuesday night after the city s Board of Elections acknowledged a discrepancy in unofficial ranked-choice voting results that had been released earlier in the day. The board said in a statement late Tuesday that it accidentally included thousands of test ballots in the results.
The chaos started when the tabulations released Tuesday afternoon showed about 940,000 in-person votes were cast, a major jump from the 800,000 that were reported on June 22. The city s results from primary night suggested that 96% of the in-person votes had been counted.