NEW YORK, July 1, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The New York City Board of Elections (BOE) confirmed that it failed to clear around 135,000 “test” votes from its voting machines before the New York Democrat mayoral primary election Tuesday, resulting in incorrect results that it later rescinded. The correct results have not yet been officially established.
“When the cast vote records were extracted for the first pull of RCV (Ranked Choice Voting) results, it included both test and election night results, producing approximately 135,000 additional errors,” the New York BOE said.
“Yesterday’s ranked choice voting reporting error was unacceptable,” the officials continued, adding that they “apologize to the voters and to the campaigns for the confusion” and promise an accurate recount.
A recently released unofficial count shows Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams still in the lead with 31.8 percent of the vote, and former counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio Maya Wiley and former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia are neck-and-neck with 22.2 percent and 19.3 percent, respectively. Another 124,000 absentee ballots have not yet been counted.
Before the elimination of the 135,000 fake votes, Garcia was within 2.2 points of Adams in the tight race. The candidates have each expressed concern
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