We Already Know One Winner of the New York City Mayoral Race

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Even if we're still waiting for a new mayor.

Tuesday’s bagels are barely stale and already the conventional wisdom in New York City is coalescing around a mayoral victory for Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president and ex-cop whose idiosyncratic politics are matched only by his eccentric personality.

But the race still isn’t over this time around, because New York City is using ranked choice voting in a citywide election for the first time. And the results so far—what looks to be decade-high primary turnout, shared between 13 different candidates—offer an excellent case study in why ranked choice voting is a great thing. Even if it does take a couple weeks to nail down the results.

In the lead-up to New York City’s first citywide RCV election, some observers began to panic. Voters wouldn’t be able to handle it! Celebrity candidate Andrew Yang

 

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