Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is ahead in the Democratic Primary for mayor after the NYC Board of Elections calculated who would win with only in person votes under the new ranked choice voting system.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams was ahead by around 9% in preliminary 1st choice results released the evening of the primary. Tuesday’s final count showed he now edges out Kathryn Garcia by just over 2%.
The new ranked choice count includes about 800,000 in-person ballots cast by Democratic primary voters, including 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th choices. It excludes about 130,000 absentee ballots that are still being processed by the BOE.
The second to last round of counting showed Adams with 40.9%, former counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio Maya Wiley with 29.3% and former Sanitation Commissioner Katheryn Garcia with 29.8%. In the final ranked choice count Adams had 51.1% and Garcia had 48.9%
This much closer result gives some hope to Garcia and Wiley. Both are counting on absentee ballots to propel them to victory.
Read more at PIX11.
{Matzav.com}
