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New York City mayoral results may take time. Here’s why.
Politico ^ | 06/24/2025 | Andrew Howard

Posted on 06/24/2025 11:59:23 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

It could be a while until a winner is declared in Tuesday’s New York City mayoral primary.

That’s in large part because of the city’s ranked choice voting system, where voters can select up to five candidates in order of preference on their ballots.

Unless one of the 11 candidates on the ballot receives more than 50 percent of first-choice votes — an unlikely feat with such a crowded field — the ranked choice system will kick into place. In that scenario, the candidate ranked first by the fewest number of people will have their votes reapportioned to voters’ second choice.

That process continues until there are only two candidates left. From there, whoever has the most votes is declared the winner.

New York City will start tabulating ranked choice ballots one week after the election, according to the city’s board of elections. “Preliminary RCV elimination rounds will be conducted and reports released every week until the election is certified,” the board says in an explainer.

In 2021, the primary race was called for Eric Adams on July 6 after eight rounds of tabulation, two weeks after Election Day. That year, 13 percent of Democratic primary voters chose just one candidate on the ballot, while the vast majority ranked at least two.

The city’s process has also created unique cross-endorsements from candidates in the race, particularly from the left-flank hoping to thwart former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s hopes of winning the nomination. Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander, the highest-ranking progressive candidates in the race, endorsed one another earlier this month.

“What we are looking at here are two campaigns that, if combined, actually have more support than that of Andrew Cuomo,” Mamdani said at the time.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


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1 posted on 06/24/2025 11:59:23 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Depends on how many mysteriously sourced harvested/trafficked ballots they need to inject.


2 posted on 06/24/2025 12:01:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Riiight. A lot of that going around lately.


3 posted on 06/24/2025 12:04:00 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
the ranked choice system will kick into place. In that scenario, the candidate ranked first by the fewest number of people will have their votes reapportioned to voters’ second choice.

Sounds like a great way to sneak into office radical, small-party candidates the majority of people still do not like, by crowding the field with a bunch of nobody's, and dividing-up the electorate.

4 posted on 06/24/2025 12:04:04 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: MinorityRepublican

One person one vote. Unless you use rank choice voting.


5 posted on 06/24/2025 12:05:42 PM PDT by pas
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To: MinorityRepublican

NYC:

The big rotten apple!


6 posted on 06/24/2025 12:06:58 PM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rulsh!!!!!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Gotta be patient. Elections aren’t stolen in a day.


7 posted on 06/24/2025 12:07:57 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: MinorityRepublican

I hope the people of NYC enjoy being ruled over by an extremist Muslim who hates them.


8 posted on 06/24/2025 12:12:31 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: MinorityRepublican

What Communist came up with THIS shi*t??


9 posted on 06/24/2025 12:12:32 PM PDT by montag813
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To: MinorityRepublican

because they need time to steal it


10 posted on 06/24/2025 12:12:57 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: MinorityRepublican

Cheating.


11 posted on 06/24/2025 12:23:41 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ranked choice voting is wrong. When I vote, I vote for the candidate whom I want to see in that office. I do not want to have my vote “reapportioned” to any other candidate.

I will never vote at all in any ranked choice election.


12 posted on 06/24/2025 12:28:30 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Billthedrill

Elections aren’t stolen in a day.

Of course not silly! they’re stolen at night!


13 posted on 06/24/2025 12:35:05 PM PDT by mistfree (Fear Destroys Freedom)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Crazy


14 posted on 06/24/2025 12:38:01 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yes and it takes time to move gold bars around without anybody noticing it.


15 posted on 06/24/2025 12:41:24 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MinorityRepublican

Relax, this is a priamry. If the dems pick too radical a candidate, a republican or independent can right the ship.


16 posted on 06/24/2025 12:54:14 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: MinorityRepublican

They’ll keep counting until the muzzie wins.


17 posted on 06/24/2025 1:41:31 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

“I will never vote at all in any ranked choice election.”

I have voted in a few when I lived in the city of Minneapolis. They were all municipal elections.

Like you, I think they are an asinine idea.

But when I did vote, I voted for only one person. I refused to make a second or third choice.


18 posted on 06/24/2025 1:48:24 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: mass55th
They’ll keep counting until the muzzie wins.

Probably. If I'm living in NYC, I'll vote for Cuomo.

19 posted on 06/24/2025 1:49:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

The only candidate that makes Cuomo look good.

I swear Cuomo paid him to run.


20 posted on 06/24/2025 1:50:12 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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