Following an intensive campaign marked by a wave of fiery debate and attack advertisements, the voters of New York City are putting their ballots in an important democratic mayor primary today. The result is highly anticipated with rising temperature and tightening the last stretch of the race. But never expect results soon. It may take some time before the announcement of a winner in Tuesday’s mayor primary. The city of New York uses a rank-removal voting system. Instead of choosing a single contender, voters can rank five candidates in order of preference. If their top choice does not get enough support, their vote can still be counted towards their next favorite candidates, which may delay the end results but ensure a wide reflection of the voter intention.With 11 candidates on the ballot, it is unlikely that no one will secure more than 50 percent of the votes of the first choice. If this happens, the rank-potato voting system becomes active, which starts by finishing the candidate with the lowest first choice votes and rekinds those votes to the candidates of the second choice of voters until two candidates are left. From there, those who have more votes are declared winners.According to the city’s election board, New York City will start counting rank-pasted ballots a week after the election. The board said in an interpreter, “Initial RCV elimination rounds will be held and will be issued every week until the election is certified.”Although the computerized vote is accelerated, the process does not begin immediately. Depending on the selection of the first choice of voters, the voting is expected to be held within a few hours of Tuesday, Tuesday and early results.However, the count-pasted vote count will not begin by July 1, as the city should wait for all mail-in ballots before starting the final table.This race is Andrew M. A tight two-individual performance between Kuoomo has become a former governor with the scam, and Zoharan Mamdani, with a limited experience with a Democratic Socialist Assembly. Meanwhile, nine other candidates are left behind, and elections indicate that the race is still close to the call.The July 1 count may show who is the lead, but it will not be final. With the absentee ballot, the high rank choice will be counted, and the official results will not be certified by July 15.In the primary of 2021, Eric Adams was declared the winner on July 6 after eight rounds of eight rounds two weeks after the election. That year, 13% of Democratic voters selected only one candidate, while most were given two or more space.
