Confusion Engulfs New York Mayor’s Race After Elections Board Debacle
Elections,New York,New York City,Voting Rights And Voter Fraud
Today, probably “later this afternoon,” according to a spokeswoman, the New York City Board of Elections will post new primary election returns, tabulated according to the rules of ranked-choice voting.
If all of this feels like déjà vu, that’s because this will be the second day in a row that the Board of Elections will have run the ranked-choice voting algorithm.
Yesterday, the Board ran the algorithm, posted the results, and then, following hours of comments from mayoral candidates and questions from reporters, abruptly took them down from its website, acknowledging on Twitter it had accidentally plumped up the tally with 135,000 erroneous test votes.
Today, the board is hoping to avoid similar pitfalls.
