NYC Mayor/2021 Megathread

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Those numbers are interesting but ultimately meaningless, it's possible (at least in principle) that they won't even be the top 2 when absentees are factored in.

Soooo....the person who finished f'n third in the election may end up winning?

That isn't democracy.

No because that's not how elections should be done, and that's not how this election was done. If she wins, she finished first, not 3rd.

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Nobody's losing their job. These aren't even the results. It's instant runoff. You don't have anything until you have everything.

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Yes they should be counting all along and quickly, so that when the deadlines for absentees to be received/cured have elapsed they can soon afterwards release complete results, and nothing before that.

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This primary election has been a testament to democracy.

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Well, Adams was neither my first nor second choice, but he certainly hit a nerve with his message on crime. Seems like after eight years of the more left leaning DeBlasio, New Yorkers want to return to the days of Bloomberg in a sense.

Not really. Adams and De Blasio are longtime allies and Adams won a lot of De Blasio's strongest areas (not where the kind of people who get their opinions from NYT podcasts tend to live)

Did they actually run IRV on subregions or you just mean he got a plurality of 1st choice votes?

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Looks like the next mayor of NYC is a KHiver lol.

https://twitter.com/people4kam/status/1414393532828188673?s=20

Good.