The results come two weeks after voting in the primary ended, on June 22. While early returns showed Adams in the lead, tens of thousands of absentee ballots had to be counted and rounds of tabulations has to be done under the ranked-choice system in which voters ranked up to five candidates for mayor in order of preference. …
However, the new voting system was marred by an error made as votes were being counted on June 29, when elections officials inadvertently included 135,000 old test ballots in the count. The incorrect vote tallies were posted for several hours before officials acknowledged the error and took them down.
Organizers ONLY noticed when frontrunner Eric Adams ‘raised serious questions’
Donald Trump has reacted with glee to the chaos gripping New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, after election officials there admitted that 135,000 test ballots had been mistakenly counted as real ones.
‘The New York City Election, even though an embarrassment and total mess, is far better and more accurate than my 2020 Presidential Election—so what are people complaining about!’ Trump said in a statement on Wednesday, linking the pandemonium in New York to his unproven claims of election fraud.