NYC Board of Elections points to ‘quality control’ in wait for primary results
There’s nothing boring about the Board of Elections.
New York City’s error-prone and much-maligned Board of Elections said late Thursday evening that the wait would continue for incomplete ranked-choice primary results in races for borough president and City Council.
“As we conduct various quality control measures; the Board will not release the preliminary RCV rounds for Borough President & City Council today,” the agency tweeted with an alarm emoji.
🚨As we conduct various quality control measures; the Board will not release the preliminary RCV rounds for Borough President & City Council today.
— NYC Board of Elections (@BOENYC) July 1, 2021
The notice came in a difficult week for the elections board, which stunned and frustrated the city on Tuesday by releasing — and then deleting — inaccurate ranked-choice data that it said included some 135,000 “test” ballots.
On Wednesday, the Board of Elections released updated, but incomplete, ranked-choice results. Those figures cover the races for mayor, comptroller and public advocate. They do not include absentee ballots.
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The agency did not release fresh ranked-choice results in contests for borough president or the City Council.
The Board of Elections didn’t immediately return an inquiry about whether results are expected on Friday.
After the botched results rollout, the elections board said in a statement: “We have implemented another layer of review and quality control before publishing information going forward.”
“As we continue to count absentee ballots and run further RCV tabulations, we will do so with a heightened sense that we must regain the trust of New Yorkers,” the statement added.
