Posted on 07/01/2021 7:36:29 AM PDT by thegagline
New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams’ campaign filed a lawsuit Wednesday after the city’s Board of Elections released an inaccurate vote tally in the Democratic primary
“Today we petitioned the court to preserve our right to a fair election process and to have a judge oversee and review ballots, if necessary,” his campaign said in a statement. “We are notifying the other campaigns of our lawsuit through personal service, as required by law, because they are interested parties.”
Adams, the Brooklyn Borough president, called on “other campaigns to join us and petition the court as we all seek a clear and trusted conclusion to this election.”
The city’s Election Board, which is run by Democrats and Republicans, on Tuesday night said it inadvertently added some 135,000 so-called “test ballots” to the count, throwing the process into disarray. The agency released the data as part of a simulation of how ranked-choice voting would play out following the initial count of votes.
Adams, a former police officer, had emerged as the Democrat frontrunner following the initial vote count on Primary Day last week. But he lost much of his lead and was ahead of Kathryn Garcia, the city’s former sanitation commissioner, by about 15,900 votes, or around 2 percent, after the Board of Elections released the latest data on Tuesday.
Adams’ campaign publicly pointed out the vote discrepancy shortly after the faulty count was released.
Later, in a statement at around 10:30 p.m. ET, the Board said that the 135,000 ballot images it placed into its election systems for testing reasons were never cleared.
“The Board apologizes for the error and has taken immediate measures to ensure the most accurate up to date results are reported,” the statement read. As a result, the results that were initially released earlier in the day were withdrawn.
“We are aware there is a discrepancy in the unofficial RCV round by round elimination report. We are working with our RCV technical staff to identify where the discrepancy occurred. We ask the public, elected officials and candidates to have patience,” the elections agency also wrote in a tweet.
Former President Donald Trump also weighed in on the issue, saying “based on what has happened, nobody will ever know who really won” the primary race.
“Watch the mess you are about to see in New York City, it will go on forever,” said the former president in a statement. “They should close the books and do it all over again, the old-fashioned way, when we had results that were accurate and meaningful.”
Adams’ campaign lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Kings County Supreme Court
He lacks standing, right judges??
I never suspected he was awhitesuprmacistnaziracistinsurrectionistrightwingwhackonutjobBiblethumper.
Oh my, he’s attacking Democracy!
“All you elections are belong to us!” —Xi
If only there were some way to register voters in advance, and prove who voted....
My mother was a poll-watcher/worker in NY in the 1960s and 70s, when they used the big analogue machines and your name and signature had to be in the registration book to vote.
everything was counted, results were announced, and she was home before 10 pm on election nights.
Here’s a hint:
Repeal RCV and go back to dumb voting machines.
And a question: If NYC voters are such a lock for leftists, why did NYC recently pass RCV, even though they were already using the RCV enabled machines?
Those RCV provisions are in HR1 for a reason...
Audit NYC. Audit NYS.
Good point. Because neither candidates nor politicians nor government entities have “standing”
That method of voting was racist.
Yep, this is bizarre. He’s a good Democrat, and filing a lawsuit over election procedures??? I thought Democrats were simon pure when it comes to elections, and only evil Republicans would have the audacity to challenge election procedures.
They will shop a corrupted leftist judge and there’s no shortage of them. I’m all for this interRat kerfluffle as maybe it exposes deeper systemic vote fraud.
How fast the libs can turn on a dime. Last week they were saying that it was impossible in our democracy that fraud could have occurred in the stolen election of ‘20. Now they cry out for honest and fair election when they’re involved.
I knew it! Voters were verified, no one questioned the process, results were tabulated quickly, and everyone trusted the results. Clearly, a system designed by white people!
Hearty chortles here. I thought election fraud was nearly impossible….
These people belong in prison.
Just remember the Dem primaries last year and the mess in Iowa and other states where no clear winner was ever determined.
They are doing this on purpose to be able to control the outcome of all elections.
Yes, it was far too white.
If Adams keeps this up, I’m sure he will be banned on Twitter and Facebook. /sarc
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Be cut off mid speech by Fox.
They call it an error. I call it getting caught.
Wait. He wants a “Fair Election Process”? In New York City?? ((cleaning ears)). Did I hear that right?
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