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(Bloomberg) Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams narrowed his lead after a corrected vote count in the Democratic primary for New York Cityâs mayor Wednesday, following the botched release of erroneous ranked-choice voting results Tuesday that plunged the vote count into chaos.
Elections officials effectively threw out Tuesdayâs tally, which erroneously counted 135,000 extra test ballots alongside 800,000 legitimate Election Day and early votes and issued a new result which showed Adams leading with 51.1%, compared to 48.9% for city Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia. Civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley was eliminated after the eighth round.
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New York, NY (77WABC) The New York City Board of Elections re-released the tabulations for the first-round of ranked-choice voting results in the Democratic primary for Mayor of the City of New York.
Almost three hours after their initial deadline of 3:30pm Wednesday afternoon, the Board of Election officials unveiled the new numbers, which were not far off from the count released Tuesday.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams still maintains a slight lead over former New York City Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia. The latest tally has Adams with 358,521 votes or 51-percent, while Garcia garnered 343,766 or just under 49-percent. The candidates only separated by 14,755 votes with 120,000 plus absentee ballots which still have not been counted.
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New York City’s updated results for its mayoral primary show former NYPD officer Eric Adams with a slim lead over former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia a day after the city’s Board of Elections mistakenly counted approximately 135,000 invalid ballots.
The results were identical to Tuesday’s unofficial ones, with Adams at 51.1% and Garcia at 48.9%. Tuesday was the first election in the city’s history to use ranked choice voting, and its initial tally included incorrect preliminary vote counts before the board withdrew them hours later.
Adams, who was the frontrunner in the campaign’s final days, leads Garcia by 14,755 votes, while Maya Wiley finished third after totaling just 347 shy of second. His lead, however, is not guaranteed, since New York City is waiting until July 6 to count approximately 125,000 absentee ballots that could decide who will likely be its next mayor.