Adams Holds On As Garcia Surges With New Vote Totals: Updates

Following a day of chaos at the New York City Board of Elections Tuesday, the mayoral race is back where it stood: Eric Adams holding a narrow lead in the final round of ranked-choice voting against Kathryn Garcia, who has surged into second place over Maya Wiley by the final round of balloting. The results are preliminary and do not include more than 124,000 absentee ballots whose votes have yet to be reported.

Counting the absentees

On Friday, the New York Times offered a check-in on the process, which began on Monday:

Ms. Garcia, who beat Mr. Adams in Manhattan in the in-person vote tally, also showed strength in absentee ballots from the borough, according to a preliminary count of unofficial results obtained by The New York Times. She was the first choice on 9,043 ballots of 23,739 ballots counted as of Thursday night, or about 38 percent. She was the second or third choice on another 7,187 ballots. Mr. Adams was the first choice on 2,999 absentee ballots from Manhattan, or about 13 percent, and the second or third choice on another 5,304. Manhattan was the only borough he did not win in the in-person tally.

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