NYC Mayoral Race: Embattled Board Of Elections Releases New Numbers Showing Adams With Same Razor-Thin Lead
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) There is more fallout from the massive mistake made by the city’s Board of Elections in tabulating ranked choice voting results in the Democratic mayoral primary.
Eric Adams wants a judge to oversee the vote count and preserve the integrity of the ballots, while the BOE is trying to save face after a gaffe that one political pundit called a “train wreck,” CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported.
Maybe the second time’s the charm. The problem-plagued BOE released a new set of preliminary ranked choice voting numbers on Wednesday evening. They show the same thing as Tuesday Adams with 51.1%, followed by Kathryn Garcia with 48.9% after nine rounds.
By Susan Arbetter City of Albany UPDATED 5:41 PM ET Jun. 30, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:11 PM ET Jun. 30, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:11 PM EDT Jun. 30, 2021
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It wasn’t until three months after the November 2020 elections that Claudia Tenney, a Republican, was named the definitive winner of New York s 22nd Congressional District, a flip-flopping district in Central New York that had been represented by Democrat Anthony Brindisi since 2018, and who, in turn, had won the seat from Tenney.
Since then, reformers in the state Legislature have been calling to clean up New York s elections processes. The situation in New York City is a national embarrassment and must be dealt with promptly and properly,” state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said in statement. “In the coming weeks, the Senate
NEW YORK Eric Adams and Kathryn Garcia are suing. Donald Trump is pushing conspiracy theories. And the final results in New York’s mayoral primary may not be known for weeks or possibly months.
The botched count of the city’s ranked-choice election results Tuesday sparked a flood of criticism and calls for reform of New York’s notorious Board of Elections but as candidate Maya Wiley said Tuesday night, “It is impossible to be surprised.”
Like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade and July 4 on Coney Island, bungled votes and the uproar that follows have become a tradition in New York where elections have long been run by a board controlled by political party machines and staffed through patronage.
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Names mistakenly purged from voter rolls. Long lines at polling places. Equipment breakdowns. Absentee ballots with the wrong voter’s name. And now a blunder in tallying mayoral primary votes.
The troubled record of New York City’s Board of Elections has provoked outcries from elected leaders for years. Despite longstanding agreement on the need for changes, little has been done.
This week the board added another ignominious example when it mistakenly added 135,000 test ballots to preliminary vote counts in the Democratic primary for mayor. The error prompted new calls to reform the century-old board, a relic from the days of Tammany Hall, and optimism that this time might be different.