Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams appears to still be leading the mayoral candidate pack after the New York board of elections published its newest batch of ballot tallies, an update in the counting before final results are solidified likely next week.
That took forever and ended up being the same guy from election night
Gotta call out hacks and grifters even when they’re nominally aligned with my politics–NYC BOE is a shitfire clownshow. Everyone from the social media intern on up ought to be made to show cause why they should not be fired.
Sigh, this is why we can’t have nice things. A former cop and a former registered republican wins a dem primary.
With this IRV system, they shouldn’t release any result until every vote is counted - the result isn’t final until it’s final.
What an utter shambles this process was.
Though it looks like NY’s unbroken parade of terrible mayors is set to continue.
What a bunch of fuckups. We deserve it for letting them fill all the positions with in-law fuckups, mommy fuckups, nephew fuckups, big donor fuckups, just the general array of fuckups you’d expect if you let one group of fuckups pass favors to another group of fuckups without any oversight.
Damn, I was hoping for Maya Wiley.
They must have taken lessons from TMFWWNBN.
The delay was because of absentee ballot counting, not ranked choice voting. Regardless, NYC isn’t exactly covering itself with glory here.
Apparently “Defund the Police” is not that popular.
Undoubtedly because progressives are so popular./s
It’s not over till the counting is done. Garcia (or even Wiley) might still catch up in the next round of counting, as the top quote implies.
Anyway, it won’t be my vote that puts Adams in office. I voted for Wiley and Garcia, in that order, either of whom I’d be happy with. Not Adams. I don’t care that he used to be a police officer, but I don’t want a ‘former’ Republican, who promised to open carry while in office, as our mayor.
It’ll be fine as soon as the new administration reforms the Board of Elections. I expect that to happen just after the floodwaters swallow Staten Island.
I had this race being very tight if Garcia could be the #2. I had Garcia winning by a point. Adams clipped her in the end. Garcia did her outreach to Yang too late. She should’ve done it a week earlier or timed it to absentee ballot distribution/returns.
I was agnostic on the outcome. I thought Garcia would make the better Mayor, but Adams’ messaging on police/crime is better for the national party, especially to reach working class voters and to counter the excesses of far left messaging on policing.
It is not a Dump, it is a legitimate count of the votes.
It’s interesting. Democrats claim to care about working people yet everyone is wringing their hands about Adams – who happens to be the working class voters’ choice. There’s clearly a disconnect. We apparently don’t hear what working people really want, not even our own working people. This was after all a Democratic primary and you have to be a registered Democrat to vote in NY primaries.
That said, Adams is beginning to make me nervous. I suspect he’s got demagogue problems and what I’m seeing in him now that he’s sniffing power makes me awfully glad I didn’t vote for him.
… and this is how he celebrates on Thursday July 8th?
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