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A poll worker holds I voted stickers at PS 72 Dr. William Dorney School on November 3, 2020 in the Bronx borough of New York City. | David Dee Delgado/Getty Images
Inside the mad dash for New York mayoral endorsements
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Andrew Yang was mulling a run for New York City mayor last fall when he reached out to a labor union with proven political clout to introduce himself.
During the chat the president of the Hotel Trades Council, Rich Maroko, let slip that his daughters supported Yang’s unconventional presidential bid, so the mayoral hopeful decided to surprise them in December with a brief video extolling their father and wishing them a happy holiday, according to someone familiar with the recording.
Ranked-choice voting sees first test AG’s suit against NRA moves forward Garcia calls for vaccine czar
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A new system of ranked-choice voting will transform New York City’s elections, including this year s race for mayor. Now it’s about to get its first test: early voting
Instead of picking one candidate, voters
will choose up to five, ranking them in order of preference. If a candidate gets a majority of first-choice votes, they win and that’s the end of it. But if no one does, a computerized system eliminates the last-place candidate and parcels out their votes to the second choice. The process repeats itself until someone gets a majority.
Former straphanger Dr. Anthony Fauci had a special message just for MTA workers: get the COVID vaccine.
But with 97 percent of the state s vaccine supply now exhausted, both the city and the state are on pace to run out of vaccines.
At a Friday briefing, Gov. Cuomo said the state would run out of the allocations it has received so far by the end of the day.
Cuomo said deliveries of the week six allocations, about 250,400 doses, had begun, but those deliveries are delivered by the federal government by various means and they arrive at different times throughout the week.
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