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by endisneigh 1819 days ago
Two comments:

1. Is it seriously that difficult to just count votes? Why does this keep happening.

2. How can a decision even be made with so many absentee votes? Surely those could change who's eliminated and thus, the entire election.

1 comments

1. The NYC Election board is run by friends and family of politicians. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/nyc-voting-elect...

This is what happens when you hire based on "connections" instead of competence.

2. These are just preliminary results to give a general idea of where the election is going and help debug the initial process.