New York Mayor’s Race in Chaos , After 135,000 Test Ballots Are Counted.
On June 29, the New York City Board of Elections released a new tally of votes in the Democratic mayoral primary.
'The New York Times' reports that the initial results had suggested that the mayoral race had tightened significantly.
However, just a few hours later, the elections board issued a cryptic tweet revealing a “discrepancy” in the report.
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By that evening, the report had been taken down and replaced by a new notice that the results would not be available until June 30.
According to the 'NYT,' the board explained in a statement that it had failed to remove sample ballot images used to test its new voting software.
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The board counted “both test and election night results, producing approximately 135,000 additional records,” the statement said.
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There is real danger that voters will come to believe a set of facts about the race that will be disproven when all votes are in, Ben Greenfield, senior survey data analyst at Change Research, via 'The New York Times'
