Bill de Blasio definitely won the most votes in the Democratic primary, Joe Lhota won the Republican nomination, and Anthony Weiner really needs to learn not to flip off reporters. But the Board of Elections said it would hold a recount in the Democratic race, since de Blasio captured 40.21 percent of the votes cast—hovering just barely above the magic threshold of the 40 percent needed to avoid a runoff. Results of the recount are expected next week, giving second-place finisher Bill Thompson another week in the race. If a recount puts de Blasio under 40 percent, a runoff will be held on Oct. 1 with Thompson, who won 26 percent of the vote.
More later.
Ever since the 2000 election with the recounts in Florida and the hanging chads, I always feel uneasy when the Board of Election (can't trust anyone anymore) states that they will have a recount. Uggghhh!
ReplyDeleteI hope that de Blasio's votes go up with the recount!
Watch out for the fast (re) count.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what the DB is taking about here. The actual vote count doesn't begin until tomorrow..paper ballots next week sometime. It will be the first official count and the only one unless a court orders a recount.. The numbers we're all seeing are probably AP counts from the ballot boxes from last night (AP is the official monitor of all elections in, at least this part of the US). How doesn't a writer or an editor from the DB know this?
ReplyDeleteDeplorable.
You're right - my fault for putting this up quickly without checking,
ReplyDeleteBetter story from the Times here:
http://projects.nytimes.com/live-dashboard/nyc-primary#sha=376a77f2a
Lack of sleep clouding my judgment! I have seen various places that the cleaned up count is accounting for de Blasio's additional numbers. But it's really just votes finally getting tallied by the AP.
I have to admit, I'm on fumes. Three and a half hours sleep and a full day of work, shudder, shudder...