The latest tally of votes in New York's complicated election involving ranked-choice voting shows Eric Adams leading Kathryn Garcia by a little more than 2 percentage points, or 15,908 votes, in New York's mayoral race.
Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, had a much larger lead in tallies released the morning after the primary, when he was ahead of Garcia by 10 points.
But the results released Tuesday don't represent the full count in the race either, as more than 124,000 absentee ballots have yet to be counted.
Those ballots could allow Garcia, the city's sanitation commissioner, to overtake Adams, and give hope to the race's leading liberal candidate, Maya Wiley, who is now in third place. Adams and Garcia are seen as more centrist candidates and have differed with Wiley over such issues as policing.
This is the first time New York has used ranked-choice voting in its mayoral race. That system is scrambling the result and will not allow New Yorkers or the outside world to know the winner until closer to mid-July.
The process allows voters to rank their top five choices, and subsequent choices beyond the top vote are later reallocated if no candidate wins an outright majority.
The tally released Tuesday was the 11th round of counting. Following its release, the NYC Board of Elections released a statement saying it was aware of a "discrepancy" in the unofficial elimination report and that it was looking into the matter.
We are aware there is a discrepancy in the unofficial RCV round by round elimination report. We are working with our RCV technical staff to identify where the discrepancy occurred. We ask the public, elected officials and candidates to have patience.
— NYC Board of Elections (@BOENYC) June 29, 2021
If a candidate had won more than 50 percent of the first-place votes in the initial tally, the race would have been over. But Adams didn't reach that threshold.
Garcia got as close to Adams in this count in part because she drew strong support from people who voted for Wiley as their first candidate.
After Wiley was eliminated from the contest through the ranked-choice system in the 10th round of this tabulation, Garcia came within 16,000 votes of Adams.
Wiley herself also closed the gap. The former counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio
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It's unclear, however, how the absentee ballots will affect the count. Wiley has not been eliminated from the race, as those votes will still be counted.
Adams in a statement pushed back on the new count, saying he was seeking clarification from the city Board of Elections.
“The vote total just released by the Board of Elections is 100,000-plus more than the total announced on election night, raising serious questions. We have asked the Board of Elections to explain such a massive increase and other irregularities before we comment on the Ranked Choice Voting projection. We remain confident that Eric Adams will be the next mayor of New York because he put together a historic five-borough working class coalition of New Yorkers to make our city a safer, fairer, more affordable place,” he said.
It was not immediately clear how much Garcia benefited in the ranked-choice voting system from an eleventh-hour alliance she made with former presidential candidate Andrew Yang
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Garcia also appeared to get a boost from low voter turnout in the Bronx compared with the number of 2018 primary votes cast. Garcia performed well in Manhattan, while Adams had strong showings in the city’s remaining four boroughs.
The ultimate winner of the Democratic primary is likely to skate by in the general election given New York City’s deep Democratic bent. The next mayor will be tasked with handling an array of significant issues, including a spike in violent crime and the ongoing recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa won the GOP mayoral primary last week.
Updated 5:23 p.m.
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