After having reported, in the evening, of disparities
, the Electoral Council of the City of New York even had to remove from its website a few hours later the results it had presented in the afternoon.
The website now states that unofficial ranking results [seront disponibles] from June 30
.
In a statement published at the end of the evening on Twitter, the Electoral Council explained that the computer system had counted images of ballot papers used for testing
, a situation which artificially inflated the number of voters by 135,000 compared to the 940,000 voters he had reported on polling day last Wednesday.
In a tweet issued earlier, the officials of the administrative body said to themselves aware [de] discrepancies in the preliminary round eliminations report
and claimed to work with the technical staff of the system [de vote préférentiel] to identify where the disparities occurred
.
Without giving details, they urged the public, elected officials and candidates for patience
.
Before withdrawing the preliminary results, the Electoral Council gave the President of the Borough of Brooklyn, after 11 rounds of voting conducted according to a preferential vote, a lead of 2.2 percentage points over that which the Electoral Council had hoisted in second place, the former municipal official Kathryn Garcia.
With nearly 369,000 votes, the favorite of the race, indisputable leader of the first round of the Democratic primary, accumulated 51.1% of the support, against 48.9% for the former commissioner of the department of the City of New York responsible for sanitation, which for its part received 353,000 votes.
Calling for explanations, the team of the race leader was reluctant to respond to the call for patience launched by the electoral authorities.
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, she said in a statement, telling herself convinced[e]
to see Eric Adams win the Democratic primary.
The press release further deplored other irregularities
, without specifying which ones.
Once all the votes are counted I know everyone will support the Democratic candidate and that’s exactly what I intend to do.
, for her part said Kathryn Garcia in a statement.
Progressive Maya Wiley, who had fallen behind Eric Adams after the first round but the Electoral Council unofficially eliminated in the last round, did not concede the victory.
I said on election night that we need to allow the democratic process to continue and count every vote so that New Yorkers have confidence in our democracy and our government.
, she said in a statement.
In the afternoon, the Electoral Council argued that Kathryn Garcia had narrowly ejected Maya Wiley from her number two position in the standings in the penultimate round, before she confirmed her lead after the elimination of the entrepreneur. Andrew Yang.
The transfer of support from the former presidential candidate to Kathryn Garcia is not surprising, as the two candidates participated in events together at the end of the campaign.
Mr. Yang even went so far as to urge his supporters to choose his ally as the second choice, even though the ally had not taken that step.
Prior to her unofficial elimination, Maya Wiley was only less than a percentage point behind Kathryn Garcia. It could therefore move up the rankings once the votes of those absent have been counted and the errors corrected.
Supported by Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, Ms. Wiley rallied the vote of the progressives.
Fragmentary results
Beyond the errors that crept in, the portrait of the race was however still likely to change, while some 125,000 ballots are still to be counted.
The unofficial results initially released on Tuesday and which will be made public the next day include the votes cast on election day as well as the ballots cast during the early voting period.
However, they exclude the absentee vote
, which could be used, for example, by voters who were out of town during the day or by other voters with a physical disability or illness.
The deadline for receiving these ballots was Tuesday.
The Electoral Council of the City of New York had already considered itself able to announce the final results in the week of July 12.
Any of the three leaders would stand out from the overwhelming majority of politicians who have ruled New York.
Of the 109 mayors known to the city, 108 were white men.
Eric Adams, 60, would be only the second African-American, after David Dinkins in the early 1990s, to be propelled to the top of the Big Apple.
Kathryn Garcia, 51, and Maya Wiley, 57, could either become the first woman elected to mayor of New York. Ms. Wiley would also be the first black mayor of the American metropolis.
Adams, unofficial first round winner
The initial results unveiled on election night, which only took into account the voters’ first choice, put Eric Adams well in the lead. He was then ahead of his rivals with 28.8% of the vote, followed by Maya Wiley (19.9% of the vote), Kathryn Garcia (17.8%) and Andrew Yang (11.7%).
Faced with his disappointing results, the latter had conceded victory two hours after the closing of the polling stations.
The nine other candidates who had succeeded in having their name written on the ballots had all obtained less than 5% of the votes each.
This is the first time that New York voters have chosen candidates for mayor of a party with the preferential vote system. Voters could choose up to five candidates, in order of preference.
When compiling the results, one candidate is eliminated in each round. The vote of the voters who supported it was then allocated to their second, third, fourth or fifth choice, depending on which candidates still in the race.
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