Derec
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New York Mayor’s Race in Chaos After Elections Board Counts 135,000 Test Ballots
That's rather embarrassing to the city. And it may doom ranked choice voting from being used in NYC again.
NY Times said:The New York City mayor’s race plunged into chaos on Tuesday night when the city Board of Elections released a new tally of votes in the Democratic mayoral primary, and then removed the tabulations from its website after citing a “discrepancy.”
The results released earlier in the day had suggested that the race between Eric Adams and his two closest rivals had tightened significantly.
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Then, around 10:30 p.m., the board finally released a statement, explaining that it had failed to remove sample ballot images used to test its ranked-choice voting software. When the board ran the program, it counted “both test and election night results, producing approximately 135,000 additional records,” the statement said. The ranked-choice numbers, it said, would be tabulated again.
That's rather embarrassing to the city. And it may doom ranked choice voting from being used in NYC again.