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Eric Adams, the current leader in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, is alleging “irregularities” in the city’s vote tally.
“The vote total just released by the Board of Elections is 100,000-plus more than the total announced on election night, raising serious questions,” Adams’ campaign said in a Tuesday statement after the board announced that he leads former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by just under 16,000 votes. 124,000 absentee ballots have yet to be counted, according to the New York Times.
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Adams stays ahead, Garcia surges but New York election board admits counting problems
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and then voidedafter a major discrepancy in the vote totals.
Hours after releasing results that showed Kathryn Garcia leapfrogging second-place finisher Maya Wiley to come within striking distance of Adams, the city Board of Elections issued a confusing statement that acknowledged problems with the results, but neither explained the problem, took any responsibility for it nor answered any follow-up questions.
By 10 p .m., the Board withdrew the tally and said it had made a serious error, counting some 135,00 “test” ballots in its totals.
It was a messy episode in the first citywide test of ranked-choice voting a system that allows for the ranking of up to five candidates in order of preference and kicks in when no one secures 50 percent of the vote.
Froma Harrop: Black Democrats save the party once again
How often do African Americans have to save the Democratic Party from its left wing? With Black voters having just thrust a moderate ex-cop to the head of the pack in New York City s mayoral race, it s the second time in just over a year they ve done it.
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Froma Harrop
How often do African Americans have to save the Democratic Party from its left wing? With Black voters having just thrust a moderate ex-cop to the head of the pack in New York City’s mayoral race, it’s the second time in just over a year they’ve done it.
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