"...This is the first citywide primary where New York City used ranked-choice voting.
The system allows voters to rank up to five candidates for mayor and other city offices.
If no candidate receives a majority of first-place votes, the candidate who receives the fewest first-choice votes will be eliminated and his or her supporters' votes will be reallocated based on other selections.
- That process of elimination and redistribution will be repeated until two candidates remain, and the candidate left with the most votes wins.
- The Board of Elections is expected to release the first tabulation of ranked-choice votes for the early in-person and primary day votes on June 29.
- The first round of ranked-choice tabulation with absentee ballots is expected to take place on July 6. Any subsequent rounds of tabulation will take place in the following weeks.
- Voters have until July 9 to cure any deficiencies with absentee ballots, meaning the final results may not come until July 12.
- As of Monday, about 207,000 absentee ballots were sent in the Democratic primary and about 87,000 had been returned...Read all!
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