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Armadilo

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
9,877


The Democratic primary for mayor of New York City was thrown into a state of confusion Tuesday when election officials retracted their latest report on the vote count after realizing it had been corrupted by test data never cleared from a computer system.

The bungle was a black mark on New York City's first major foray into ranked choice voting and seemed to confirm worries that the city's Board of Elections, which is jointly run by Democrats and Republicans, was unprepared to implement the new system.

That data had indicated that Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former police captain who would be the city's second Black mayor, had lost much of his lead and was ahead of former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by fewer than 16,000 votes.

Then the Board of Elections tweeted that it was aware of "a discrepancy" in its report on ranked choice voting results. It didn't initially explain what that discrepancy was, even as it pulled the data from its website.

Just before 10:30 p.m. it released a statement saying that 135,000 ballot images it had put into its computer system for testing purposes had never been cleared.
- Some people here don't want Adams to win, but he wasn't pulling a trump by disagreeing with the results, they just fucked up and it's rather embarrassing
 
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Sigurd2990

Member
Nov 2, 2017
143
NYC/S is a laughing stock when it comes to elections. NYS Democrats can't really criticize other states for their elections tbh
 

grand

Member
Oct 25, 2017
25,001
What is it with the US and vote counting?
Huge population, aging systems, different voting rules & systems between states & cities, a voting counting process that's reliant heavily on barely subsidized volunteer work, a single voting day that can vary in turnout, and a centuries old system that was created to benefit farmers riding into town on horseback.

Bright side is that the system results in almost no cases of voter fraud so... Success?
 

PanickyFool

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
5,947
Now imagine this level of unqualified ineptitude in all state and city civil services.

And because so many people make so much money off of it, zero reform pressure.

This is the same state that ran it's gambling operations into bankruptcy and built a useless $4 billion train station because they could not get two managers in the same organization to agree on a operating arrangement.
 

entremet

You wouldn't toast a NES cartridge
Member
Oct 26, 2017
60,206
Now imagine this level of unqualified ineptitude in all state and city civil services.

And because so many people make so much money off of it, zero reform pressure.

This is the same state that ran it's gambling operations into bankruptcy and built a useless $4 billion train station because they could not get two managers in the same organization to agree on a operating arrangement.
OTB lol.

I'm glad those are gone. They were blights.