[EL] “New York Mayor’s Race in Chaos After Elections Board Counts 135,000 Test Ballots”

sean at impactpolicymanagement.com sean at impactpolicymanagement.com
Wed Jun 30 09:13:06 PDT 2021


Does anybody know WHY the NYC BOE decided to release preliminary results
before they had received and tabulated all of the absentee ballots (plus
finished the cure process)? Why would they do it in an RCV election given
that the elimination process could look very different once those ballots
are received? 

 

Sean Parnell

 

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0000&nlid=964328> Marc Caputo for Politico: When Arizona Republicans first
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