The mayor’s winner will probably not be clear before July 1

Things looked good for Eric Adams during the primary night four years ago, when he appreciated an 11 -point lead in the mayor’s race.

“New York City said:” Our first choice is Eric Adams, “Adams told a crowd of enthusiastic supporters.

But within the framework of the classified choice voting system of the city, the second, third, fourth and fifth choice are also important. And when the complete tab was managed a week later, Adams was almost preceded by Kathryn Garcia, who only finished 7,200 votes behind.

This year, without his candidate above 50%, the classified choice vote will probably again determine the winner. And again, the process will wait a week.

“You will not know who becomes mayor – assuming that nobody gets any more than 50% – until Tuesday July 1 at 12 noon, when the RCV algorithm is directed, and the world will finally see which will end with more than 50% of the votes,” said Vincent Ignizio, deputy executive director of the City Elections Council.

“Democracy takes time,” said Susan Lerner, executive director of the Common Government Government Cause New York. LERNER says that the additional week allows the classified choice of choice to include all postal bulletins and correspondence bulletins, which must be hidden by post by the ballot day and received in a week.

“Because it takes time to the mail to put them in the hands of the board of directors, they will not be received and counted until later. So, all that we will know on the evening of the elections is first place,” said Lerner.

Ignizio says that there is another reason for delay: unlike the results of the electoral night, which are transmitted electronically from the survey sites, the classified results are based on physical equipment.

“This algorithm is executed through sticks that are in fact in the machines,” he said. “So we have to recover all these machines from the whole city, which represents more than 3,000 machines, bring them back to our warehouses, pull these sticks and execute them with what is called the voting record.”

Elections officials expect the process more easily this year than than 2021, when they have wrongly mixed test data when executing the classified choice of choice, delaying the process of an additional day.

“We have absolutely learned our lessons from the past,” said Ignizio. “We have more checks and sales in place to ensure the precision and integrity of the process. So we are ready to leave. “