Posted on 07/05/2021 3:43:46 PM PDT by Libloather
The election cycle that never seems to end is about to draw to a close - hopefully.
After two weeks of uncertainty and vote-counting errors, the city’s embattled Board of Elections is expected to release the results of a tranche of absentee ballots on Tuesday that will all but certainly determine the winner of the Democratic mayoral race and several other key local primaries.
According to BOE tallies, 131,620 absentee ballots were returned by mail on time to be tabulated in the June 22 elections, the first mayoral primary in New York City history to use the somewhat confusing ranked-choice voting system.
An overwhelming number of the outstanding absentee ballots - 125,794, to be precise - were cast by registered Democrats, whose voices hold outsized power in deciding the heated mayoral primary due to the razor-thin electoral margins established by the count of all in-person votes.
The in-person tally currently has Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams at the head of the sprawling mayoral primary pack.
But Kathryn Garcia, Mayor de Blasio’s former sanitation commissioner, trails Adams by a measly 14,755 ballots in the in-person count, meaning the race could flip on its head once the absentees are entered into the mix.
Adding another wrinkle, Maya Wiley, de Blasio’s former counsel, is clinging on to hope that the absentee ballots could carry her to victory in the mayoral showdown, having been eliminated in the in-person count’s final ranked-choice round after placing behind Garcia by just 347 votes.
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ranked-choice voting = easier way to cheat ?
The should have called it ‘Rank Choice’.
From what I gather, you get a choice from column A, B and C. The counters figure out who won.
Do I understand this correctly? The losers choose who they will give their votes to until there is only one left? Or am I confusing some other weird voting system?
Right....This is a clever little voting method. Allows more possibilities for rigging. I believe whoever wins will have to be an ally of Cuomo. By the way...where is he?
I’m waiting, perhaps hoping, that there will be major protests when DeBlazio’s puppet “wins” the election.
Yes. Locally a conservative ran for city council and received the second most votes out of 19 candidates. Since he received 48% and not more than 50% of the votes they used rank choice voting. He lost to the person who received the second lowest amount of votes, only 4%.
No. Each voter makes a choice at the outset.
The Virginia GOP just used this method for their primary.
Let’s say that there are 7 Candidates in the race.
A, B, C, D, E, F and G.
Each voter will rank their preferences. Example:
1. G
2. A
3. B
4. F
5. C
6. D
7. E
If no candidate gets 50%+ of the vote, then the lowest ranked candidate is eliminated, and the 2nd choice ON THOSE ballots is distributed.
In our Hypothetical, lets say that the first round vote share was as follows:
1. G - 30%
2. A - 20%
3. B - 15%
4. F - 11%
5. C - 10%
6. D - 9%
7. E - 5%
E would be eliminated. On those 5% of the ballots, their 2nd Choice votes get redistributed.
The next round might look like this:
1. G - 30%
2. A - 23%
3. B - 15%
4. F - 12%
5. C - 10%
6. D - 10%
The process repeats until one candidate gets 50%+ of the vote.
Oh....good...grief😱
Ranked Choice Voting is a favorite of Ivory Tower folks and msm. And it always fails. They’ll say, “Your doing it wrong!” and not change their minds. Stupidity is permanent.
What a cf.
I was going to ask what the hell a tranche is but I see it oft times refers to money.
Makes sense.
Agreed.
Good explanation! The only thing to add is that, in the NYC primary, each voter could make only five picks from among the thirteen candidates.
One plausible strategy was to use your first few picks for the people you really like. Then assess who the probable front-runners are, based on polling and whatever else you think relevant, and give your fourth and fifth picks to the front-runners you dislike the least.
Ranked choice voting is designed to let liberals win elections when the consrvative gets more votes.
Listened to WOR radio this morning. They mentioned that Chinatown is full of Curtis Slows posters. A real long shot but Curtis has the independent slot in the election.
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