The New York City Board of Elections on Tuesday night announced a “discrepancy” in the ranked-choice vote tallies in the Democratic mayoral primary, sowing confusion hours after newly released results showed a tightening race.
The latest tally of votes released Tuesday afternoon had shown Eric Adams leading Kathryn Garcia by a little more than 2 percentage points, or 15,908 votes.
But shortly after the release of those results, the Board of Elections released a statement saying it had become aware of a “discrepancy” in the vote tally report and was looking into it. Then, not long after that, the ranked-choice tabulations appeared to be taken down from the website.
We are aware there is a discrepancy in the unofficial RCV round by round elimination report. We are working with our RCV technical staff to identify where the discrepancy occurred. We ask the public, elected officials and candidates to have patience.
— NYC Board of Elections (@BOENYC) June 29, 2021