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.
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Depends on how many mysteriously sourced harvested/trafficked ballots they need to inject.
Riiight. A lot of that going around lately.
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.
One person one vote. Unless you use rank choice voting.
NYC:
The big rotten apple!
Gotta be patient. Elections aren’t stolen in a day.
I hope the people of NYC enjoy being ruled over by an extremist Muslim who hates them.
What Communist came up with THIS shi*t??
because they need time to steal it
Cheating.
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.
Elections aren’t stolen in a day.
Of course not silly! they’re stolen at night!
Crazy
Yes and it takes time to move gold bars around without anybody noticing it.
Relax, this is a priamry. If the dems pick too radical a candidate, a republican or independent can right the ship.
They’ll keep counting until the muzzie wins.
“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.
Probably. If I'm living in NYC, I'll vote for Cuomo.
The only candidate that makes Cuomo look good.
I swear Cuomo paid him to run.
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