How Did New York City’s Election Count Go So Very, Very Wrong?

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What had to go wrong for fake ballots to get mixed in with the real ones.

of votes in the Democratic primary for mayor that appeared to show a near-dead heat during an automatic runoff—before the count was revealed as a fiasco. The results seemed to show that the lead that front-runner Eric Adams had over Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley had significantly narrowed. Adams’ campaign, however, pointed out a discrepancy in the tally, which led the board to withdraw the report.

It’s hard to speculate, but what it suggests to me is that they hadn’t done a really thorough dry run of the system before they put it online. Even if they had done that, I might expect some kinds of problems, because if you test the system with 10,000 voters and then you scale it up, suddenly there are changes and new kinds of bugs that show up, but this seems like the kind of bug you could’ve caught with a 10,000-vote test.

 

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