MORE DEMOCRAT ELECTION FRAUD: NYC Mayoral Primary Race Thrown Into Chaos as Board of Elections Botches Vote Count, Suddenly Finds 135K Votes

Democrat corruption in NYC goes back to Boss Tweed. The city is a hellhole under the boot of Democrat criminals. Apparently, Democrat autocrats don’t want Eric Adams.

From the story: “Elections 2.0: Sources tell me the Board of Elections is going back to the drawing board and running corrected ranked-choice numbers tomorrow,” Spectrum News Political Director Bob Hardt said. “About 130,000 ‘votes’ were part of a test-run that were never cleared from a computer” (Daily Wire). The explanation from the New York Board of Elections (Twitter). From Robert George: So, you know that much-criticized measure in the Georgia election law that allows legislature to intervene in local county election operations due to alleged “incompetence”? NYC has just given it much more credence (Twitter).

NYC mayoral primary race thrown into chaos as BOE botches vote count

The Democratic primary race for mayor was thrown into chaos Tuesday as the city Board of Elections appeared to have botched the count amid the city’s first ranked-choice election — adding 135,000 pre-election “test” ballots that hadn’t been cleared from a computer.

By: NY Post, June 30, 2021

According to a BOE statement Tuesday night, “it has determined that ballot images used for testing were not cleared from the Election Management System . . .

“The Board apologizes for the error and has taken immediate measures to ensure the most accurate up to date results are reported.”

Preliminary results released earlier in the day showed a total of 941,832 ballots cast for mayor, an increase of more than 140,000 from the 799,827 that were counted on June 22, the day of the primary.

The glaring discrepancy at first went unnoticed until it was flagged by front-runner Eric Adams.

“The vote total just released by the Board of Elections is 100,000-plus more than the total announced on election night, raising serious questions,” an Adams spokesman said.

“We have asked the Board of Elections to explain such a massive increase and other irregularities before we comment on the ranked-choice voting projection.”

In response, the embattled agency scrubbed all the results from its website, replacing them with a message saying, “Unofficial Rank Choice ­Results Starting on June 30.”

Some questioned why the agency even released preliminary results.

Veteran political consultant Sid Davidoff, a former aide to Mayor John Lindsay, said: “It’s unclear why the Board of Elections put out these preliminary results today as they are relatively meaningless when you have 120,000 absentee ballots still outstanding

 

BOE botched NYC mayoral primary results by including ‘test’ run

“It would have been more beneficial for them to wait until they had a complete picture rather than further muddy the waters in an already confusing issue,” he added.

The disarray marked the latest in a long line of screwups by the BOE, which admitted violating election laws by purging 200,000 voters from its rolls before the 2016 presidential primary.

During the November 2018 midterm elections, some voters were forced to wait hours to cast their ballots because high humidity jammed new scanners that cost a total of $56 million.

And during the 2020 presidential primaries, the board disqualified 80,000 ballots because officials weren’t prepared to handle the deluge of mail-in votes cast amid the coronavirus pandemic.

State Board of Elections co-chairman Doug Kellner called the situation “very disappointing” and faulted the BOE’s “lack of transparency with respect to the counting of the ranked-choice-cast voting records.”

“Because they haven’t released them, it’s very difficult to find the source of any error,” said Kellner, a Democrat. “It’s possible that they were missing reports from the original number on election night. Another possibility is that they uploaded the same numbers twice.”

Veteran election lawyer Jerry Goldfeder, who doesn’t represent any candidate, said, “It’s not clear if they’re computer glitches or human error. … It’s just hard to know what’s going to happen.”

Goldfeder said a manual recount of every ballot cast was “possible, if the vote totals are close.”