NYC Begins Ranked-Choice Ballot Tally In Queens
arrow In Queens: The BOE's first election to require multiple rounds of counting under the new ranked-choice voting system Brigid Bergin / Gothamist In office space tucked into the hulking Metro Mall in Middle Village, dozens of Board of Elections employees, candidates, and observers made history Tuesday as they began to hand count ballots cast in the BOE's first election to require multiple rounds of counting under the new ranked-choice voting system. (This is the second time New York City has adopted a form of RCV, the first was in the 1930s.) The additional tallies were trigg...