Adams stays ahead, Garcia surges to second but election board admits counting discrepancy

Eric Adams barely held onto his lead in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary after voters’ lower-ranked candidates were accounted for on Tuesday — but the results were immediately called into question after a major discrepancy in the vote totals.

Hours after releasing results that showed Kathryn Garcia leapfrogging second-place finisher Maya Wiley to come within striking distance of Adams, the city Board of Elections issued a confusing statement that acknowledged problems with the results, but neither explained the problem, took any responsibility for it nor answered any follow-up questions.