Mayor Invoice de Blasio on Wednesday referred to as for a complete overhaul of the physique.
“But once more, the basic structural flaws of the Board of Elections are on show,” he stated in an announcement, additionally calling for “an instantaneous, full recanvass” of the vote rely and “a transparent rationalization of what went fallacious.”
“Going ahead,” he stated, “there have to be an entire structural rebuild of the board.”
And Mr. Adams’s marketing campaign introduced that it had filed a lawsuit in State Supreme Courtroom in Brooklyn.
“At present we petitioned the court docket to protect our proper to a good election course of and to have a decide oversee and overview ballots, if mandatory,” the marketing campaign stated in an announcement. “We invite the opposite campaigns to hitch us and petition the court docket as all of us search a transparent and trusted conclusion to this election.”
Ms. Garcia’s marketing campaign indicated in an announcement that it was submitting in court docket as properly, to protect “our rights beneath election legislation to guard the canvass and supply for court docket supervision of the vote rely if wanted.”
The Wiley marketing campaign declined to touch upon any potential authorized proceedings.
Individually, Mr. Adams and a few of his allies have lengthy expressed considerations in regards to the ranked-choice voting course of, which voters authorised in a 2019 poll measure. A few of Mr. Adams’s surrogates have forged ranked selection as an try and disenfranchise voters of shade, a characterization that supporters of the method strongly reject.
However the bulk of the important give attention to Wednesday fell on the Board of Elections, as new particulars emerged in regards to the circumstances that led to what the board insists was a human error.
For instance, the provider of the software program that New York Metropolis used to tabulate votes repeatedly supplied its help to the board, in accordance with Christopher W. Hughes, the coverage director on the Ranked Alternative Voting Useful resource Heart, which supplied the open-source software program.
He didn’t hear again.
Dana Rubinstein, Ed Shanahan and Jeffery C. Mays contributed reporting.