Posted on 06/22/2021 8:37:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s neck – and neck – and neck!
New Yorkers streamed to the voting booths on Tuesday to cast their ballots in the Big Apple’s hotly contested Democratic mayoral primary — and while it will be a couple of weeks before a winner can be declared, early results showed a three-way race.
The first round of the Democratic mayoral primary had Eric Adams (143,657 votes), Maya Wiley (98,014 votes) and Kathryn Garcia (97,093 votes) one, two, three, early returns from the Board of Elections show.
But Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, had opened a roughly 10 point lead, with 30.8 percent of the 466,994 ballots counted, many during early voting, which were reported shortly after 10:30 p.m.
He was pulling away from Wiley, a former top aide to Mayor Bill de Blasio favored by progressive voters, who had 20.99 percent of the vote, and Garcia, the former Sanitation Commissioner, who netted 20.79 percent of the vote.
Garcia had been leading Wiley earlier in the count.
Andrew Yang was a more distant fourth at just 11.7 percent and 56,256 votes and conceded the race shortly before 11 p.m.
“I am not going to be the next mayor of New York City, based upon the numbers that have come in,” Yang told his supporters.
City Comptroller Scott Stringer was in fifth at 5.4 percent with just 26,026 votes.
The early vote will account for just a fraction of the ballots cast during the election.
Notably, the totals quickly posted by the BOE does not include ballots cast on Election Day, which will be reported later tonight.
The totals also do not include any of the absentee ballots cast in this election, which legally cannot be removed from their envelopes until next week.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Though polls closed at 9 p.m., it may take until July for a winner to be crowned, due to the launch of the ranked-choice voting system and the mounds of absentee ballots yet to be counted.
And the longer it takes, the more likely shenanigans will happen.
Coming soon to a national election near you.
Christopher Arps of Red State makes this observation:
This will be the first election in New York City’s history that will use so-called ‘rank choice voting’ or ‘instant runoff voting.’ This is the latest scheme by progressive activists to encourage more participation in the voting process.
Advocates say this scheme is more ‘democratic’ because it eliminates the possibility of candidates winning an election with less than fifty percent of the vote. They also claim rank choice voting discourages negative campaigning since candidates are also competing for second-choice votes from their opponents’ supporters. And third, which is obvious, rank choice voting provides more choice for voters since they can choose and rank more than one candidate.
Seems reasonable and simple enough, right? But not so fast. It seems many voters in New York City want the voting process to remain the same and to adhere to the age-old K.I.S.S. principle: Keep It Simple Stupid!
The problem also arises when progressive advocates are encouraging more participation in the voting process by advocating for non-citizens — with green cards — to vote in our elections.
“It’s Guiliani time” v.2.0!
Watch for the 4am drop.....
RE: Watch for the 4am drop.....
In whose favor?
Eric Adams is so far ahead that virtually sure he is the eventual winner.
New Yorkers streamed to the voting booths to vote for more dog sh##
It’s not just Ranked Choice Voting.
It’s the Ranked Choice Voting enabled voting machine software.
The election is rigged two ways.
NYC residents need to repeal RCV and go back to dumb voting machines.
We don’t know that.
I am pretty sure they’re doing it without machines and counting paper ballots by hand.
I mean machines would calculate the result near-instantly and the reason the result doesn’t come quickly is that they’re using paper ballots.
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