{"id":287408,"date":"2021-06-30T06:02:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T03:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/boe-botched-nyc-mayoral-primary-results-by-including-test-run\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T06:02:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T03:02:38","slug":"boe-botched-nyc-mayoral-primary-results-by-including-test-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/boe-botched-nyc-mayoral-primary-results-by-including-test-run\/","title":{"rendered":"#BOE botched NYC mayoral primary results by including ‘test’ run"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#BOE botched NYC mayoral primary results by including ‘test’ run<\/strong>”
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The too-close-to-call Democratic primary race that will likely decide New York\u2019s next mayor was thrown into disarray after election officials admitted they accidentally included \u201ctest\u201d results in the vote count, resulting in 135,000 extra ballots.<\/p>\n

The botching of the\u00a0city\u2019s first ranked-choice election was first flagged by front-runner Eric Adams, who pointed out that preliminary results from the Board of Elections showed that 941,832 votes were cast for the Democratic mayoral nomination, a huge increase of from the 799,827 that were counted on Primary Day last week.<\/p>\n

The BOE clarified their screw-up in a tweet Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been determined that ballot images used for testing were not cleared from the Election Management System (EMS),\u201d the board said of the fiasco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the cast votes were extracted for the first pull of RCV {ranked choice voting} results, it included both test and election night results, producing app<\/a>roximately 135,000 additional records,\u201d the mea culpa continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe board apologizes for the error and has taken immedia<\/a>te measures to ensure the most accurate up to date results are reported.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s unofficial results, after a total of 11 rounds of ranked-choice counting, had Adams narrowly leading former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by 368,898 votes to 352,990 or 51.1 percent to 48.9 percent, with Maya Wiley and 10 other candidates eliminated.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s mistake by the Board of Elections was unfortunate,\u201d Adams tweeted in response<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s critical that New Yorkers are confident in their electoral system, especially as we rank votes in a citywide election for the first time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

A total of 219,944 ballots \u201cwith no choices left\u201d were listed as \u201cinactive.\u201d But the city still has yet to count more than 124,000 absentee ballots sent by mail.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Yorkers want free and fair elections, which is why we overwhelmingly voted to enact ranked choice voting,\u201d Garcia said in a press release. \u201cThe BOE\u2019s release of incorrect ranked choice votes is deeply troubling and requires a much more transparent and complete explanation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wiley also blasted the BOE for its latest blunder in a Tuesday night statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis error by the Board of Elections is not just failure to count votes properly today, it is the result of generations of failures that have gone unaddressed,\u201d Wiley said.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, we have once again seen the mismanagement that has resulted in a lack of confidence in results, not because there is a flaw in our election laws, but because those who implement it have failed too many times.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n