‘Discrepancy’, confusion in New York City’s mayoral vote count

Some felt the city’s new voting system was mystifying. Now, a glitch has thrown the tallying of votes into disarray.

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 election to choose the Democratic nominee for November’s race to be the next leader of the United States’ largest city was held a week ago with a complicated new voting method being used for the first time. It allowed voters to rank their top five candidates rather than choosing just one. Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams had 32 percent of first-choice ballots, based on the incomplete results released on Election Day. Civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley was at 22 percent, and former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia third with 19 percent.