Eric Adams has poor leadership after a revised count in the NYC mayoral contest

Revised the count of New York mayoral votes released on Wednesday, Kathryn Garcia was even closer to leader Eric Adams who pushed the race into chaos than a miscalculation on Tuesday.

The latest table gave Adams, a retired police captain and Brooklyn neighborhood president, a 51.1 percent vote, with former head of the sanitation department Garcia up 48.9 percent, up from previous counts.

However, the gap between the democratic candidates was reduced from 15,908 votes to 14,755 votes, and there are still a few 124,000 votes left to count.

A third-place candidate, Maya Wiley, said the election is “still open” and called for all votes to be counted.

The city’s election commission released the bill on Wednesday evening apologizing after failing a day earlier to reveal about 135,000 votes in a test of the system. The error the anger and ridicule of the candidates on the part of New York residents.

The council, which is no stranger to controversy and criticism, blamed the failure on “human error”.

The election is the first in which the city uses a ranking vote, allowing each voter to choose five candidates based on the number of candidates. Lost candidates are eliminated in subsequent rounds, and only two finalists remain until the votes are finalized again.

“The mistake of reporting the votes in yesterday’s ranking was unacceptable and we apologize to the voters and the mixing campaigns,” said two board members, President Frederic Umane and Secretary Miguelina Camilo. “Let’s be clear: [ranked choice voting] it was not a problem, but a human error that could have been avoided. “

The commission stressed that new layers of revisions have been introduced and that it could “confidently” report that the final tabulation was accurate.

Garcia, a pragmatist who had a late rise in his campaign, said: “While we remain confident on the road to victory, we do not consider anything normal and encourage everyone to wait patiently to count the more than 124,000 absentee votes and enter the ballot.”

It was Adams ’campaign that he found Tuesday night that counted more than 100,000 votes added to the election night a week earlier.

His campaign stated Wednesday that it was ahead of election day, adding, “The votes that are still missing must be counted because we believe we are in favor of Eric – and we are confident that when each vote is scored we will be the last chance for New Yorkers.”

It seems Adams had one lead authority on election night, 31.8% of voters considered it a first choice. Wiley, the mayor’s former lawyer, continued Bill de Blasio and the leading progressive candidate, with 22.2 percent. Garcia was in third place with 19.3 percent.

But Garcia benefited from the polls as he went through the qualifying selection process. Wiley passed with only 347 votes after expelling businessman Andrew Yang from the race and redistributing his votes. Wiley’s dismissal gave Garcia another boost.

. They said the elections are the ones that have been concluded for a generation New York City More than 33,000 people have been killed, trying to recover from a pandemic that has flattened small businesses and torn the social fabric of the city.

It is also being seen beyond America’s largest city, within the broader struggle between the moderate establishment of the Democratic Party and the growing progressive wing.

Whoever wins the Democratic nomination will almost certainly win the November general election because of the huge number of Democratic voters in the city.