We get the headline….
Garcia closes on Adams in the first New York City ranked vote totals ….
THEN?
They PULL the numbers…..
Seems they made a mistake…..
Wait for tomorrow….
The New York City mayor’s race plunged into chaos on Tuesday night when the city Board of Elections released a new tally of votes in the Democratic mayoral primary, and then removed the tabulations from its website after citing a “discrepancy.”
The results released earlier in the day had suggested that the race between Eric Adams and his two closest rivals had tightened significantly.
But just a few hours after releasing the results, the elections board issued a cryptic tweet revealing a “discrepancy” in the report, saying that it was working with its “technical staff to identify where the discrepancy occurred.”
The board would not elaborate on the nature of the discrepancy; Valerie Vazquez-Diaz, a spokeswoman for the board, said only that it was related to the “difference in votes cast” between what was disclosed on primary night and on Tuesday.
By late Tuesday evening, the tabulations had been taken down, replaced by a new advisory that the ranked-choice results would be available “starting on June 30.”
The extraordinary sequence of events seeded further confusion about the outcome, and threw the closely watched contest into a new period of uncertainty at an enormously consequential moment for the city.
For the Board of Elections, which has long been plagued by dysfunction and nepotism, this was its first try at implementing ranked-choice voting on a citywide scale, and skeptics had expressed doubts about the board’s ability to pull off the process despite its successful use in other cities….
More for Adams to worry about…
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I think it’s continue worth noting that we had 124k or so absentees returned on the Dem side… They were disproportionality from places where Garcia did well in first round preferences… So whatever we see tmrw, we gotta keep that in mind.
Ok we now have what the NYC BOE messed up on….
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NYC Board of Elections throws mayoral primary into chaos by mistakenly counting 135,000 test ballots
This might have been the stupidest idea ever…It sounds like the Iowa Caucus just in primary style…What was NYC thinking…SMH
They are ALREADY getting a beat down in the media….
They deserve every blow they take…Poor plan, poor execution, poor image…elections are under assault by right wing nuts…now you make elections look bad with this debacle…c’mon you play right into the disenfranchisement camp…NYC should know better.
From what I understand, the NYC Board of Elections is actually controlled by the state and Cuomo.
Nope….
It’s a creature of the City…..
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The Board of Elections in the City of New York (NYCBOE) conducts New York elections within New York City. It is an administrative body of ten Commissioners, two from each borough upon recommendation by both political parties and then appointed by the New York City Council for a term of four years.
The NYCBOE has a longstanding history of nepotism and dysfunction.[1][2] The structure of the NYCBOE is enshrined in the New York state constitution.[1] The NYCBOE is run in a bipartisan manner, as each job position held by a Democrat must have a duplicated position for a Republican.[1] The staff in the organization are political appointees rather than professional staff.[1]
More…
There was a Tweet that Ron G. posted on his P1 feed saying something different. I really do not know myself.
Yup….
Go back to simple pick your choice …
The problem for election people is their op is invisible until there IS an election….
From my experience in talking some election people…
EVERYTHING has to have BOTH parties Ok….
EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL….
It would fail management 101….