What would you think if the count of only real ranked-voting ballots "echoed" the count when 135,000 test ballots had been erroneously included? Lolol.
It did. One of the cardinal signs that something was awry in Tuesday's release of the results with the test ballots was leader Eric Adams' lead shrinking from 8+% to ~2%. After the elite Board of Elections released the real figures yesterday, Adams lead was "around two percentage points."
From the June 29 New York Times:
The results released earlier in the day had suggested that the race between Eric Adams and his two closest rivals had tightened significantly.
This is from today at 8:11 a.m.
A day after New York City’s Board of Elections sowed confusion in the Democratic mayoral primary by releasing new tallies and then retracting them, it issued a new preliminary tally of votes suggesting that the race between Eric Adams, the primary night leader, and his two closest rivals had tightened significantly.
This is reported by the Times without irony!
...According to Wednesday’s nonbinding tally, Mr. Adams led Kathryn Garcia by...a margin of around 2 percentage points, in the final round.
