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Ranked Choice Vote Count to Start in Southeast Queens Special Election With No Clear Winner Additional reporting by Ben Fractenberg
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The Queens City Council District 31 special election became the city’s first contest triggering ranked choice voting selections after polls closed Tuesday night without any candidate securing a big enough lead to win outright.
Voters cast just under 7,000 in-person ballots in the race to replace former City Council member Donovan Richards, who now serves as borough president. Selvena Brooks-Powers notched about 38% of all first choice votes in early and special election day voting, giving her a 207-vote lead over Pesach Osina, who received 35%, according to the city Board of Elections.
New York’s two largest vaccination sites to date, both run jointly by FEMA and the state, opened Wednesday in Brooklyn and Queens, the first in a series of launches under a new federal program targeting historically underserved communities. The two boroughs are the third and fifth deadliest COVID counties in America, respectively, according to Johns Hopkins University data. They long.