{"id":576863,"date":"2021-06-29T19:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=576863"},"modified":"2021-06-29T19:35:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:35:15","slug":"nyc-mayoral-frontrunner-claims-irregularities-in-primary-tally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayoral-frontrunner-claims-irregularities-in-primary-tally\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayoral Frontrunner Claims \u2018Irregularities\u2019 In Primary Tally"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-mayoral-frontrunner-claims-irregularities-in-primary-tally%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=576863&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/eric-adams-scaled-e1625006211320.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Eric Adams, the current leader in New York City\u2019s Democratic mayoral primary, is alleging \u201cirregularities\u201d in the city\u2019s vote tally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vote total just released by the Board of Elections is 100,000-plus more than the total announced on election night, raising serious questions,\u201d Adams\u2019 campaign said in a Tuesday statement after the board announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/29\/eric-adams-kathryn-garcia-new-york-city-mayor-ranked-choice-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he leads<\/a> former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by just under 16,000 votes. 124,000 absentee ballots have yet to be counted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/29\/nyregion\/adams-garcia-wiley-mayor-ranked-choice.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the New York Times.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.075\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Eric Adams\u2019 statement, which goes there <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xhYORu3Mqy\">pic.twitter.com\/xhYORu3Mqy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dana Rubinstein (@danarubinstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danarubinstein\/status\/1409983631821611008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe have asked the Board of Elections to explain such a massive increase and other irregularities before we comment on the ranked choice voting projection,\u201d the statement continues. \u201cWe remain confident that Eric Adams will be the next mayor of New York because he put together a historic five borough working class coalition of New Yorkers to make our city a safer, fairer, more affordable place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York City Board of Elections later announced that it is investigating \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">a discrepancy in the unofficial RCV round by round elimination report.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.524916943522\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">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.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYC Board of Elections (@BOENYC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BOENYC\/status\/1410000282654842886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Adams campaign did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The New York City Board of Elections did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Adams, a former police officer and Brooklyn Borough President, has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/22\/eric-adams-kathryn-garcia-mayor-new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">led<\/a> throughout the Democratic primary, which was conducted by ranked-choice voting for the first time. He has centered his campaign around rising crime rates and housing costs. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/29\/eric-adams-kathryn-garcia-new-york-city-mayor-ranked-choice-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Eric Adams, Kathryn Garcia In Nail-Biting Race To Become New York City\u2019s Next Mayor)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adams previously suggested that Garcia and Andrew Yang, who dropped out on election night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2021\/06\/21\/adams--supporters-call-yang--garcia-combo--voter-suppression-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conspired<\/a> to \u201csuppress the vote\u201d of non-white voters by telling their supporters to rank each other second.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI assure voters that no one is gonna steal the election from me,\u201d Adams said when a reporter asked him to clarify his comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Adams, the current leader in New York City\u2019s Democratic mayoral primary, is alleging \u201cirregularities\u201d in the city\u2019s vote tally.\u201cThe vote total just released by the Board of Elections is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313691,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/eric-adams-scaled-e1625006211320.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"NYC Mayoral Frontrunner Claims \u2018Irregularities\u2019 In Primary Tally","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/eric-adams-scaled-e1625006211320.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"NYC Mayoral Frontrunner Claims \u2018Irregularities\u2019 In Primary Tally","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}