The much anticipated June 22 primary election isn’t over yet! While polls closed at 9 p.m. and results slowly started rolling in, we may not have full results until next week (or later!), thanks to ranked-choice voting (RCV), which tallies votes in rounds, versus all at once.
So far, Lincoln Restleris leading the contested race for the District 33 City Council seat. As of 9 a.m. on Wednesday, June 23, Restler received 48% of…
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Why do we have to wait till the middle of July or later to get a result? We are getting more like a banana republic where the outcome is in doubt for a long time or in Israel where they cobble together something and then it implodes.
With rare exception (2000 Gore vs Bush) since I have been voting 1964, you usually got the result the next day.
Mail in ballots should only be given a one week, two weeks tops absolute deadline. In theory with all the high tech, we should be able to recalculate the ranking in a nano second with computers.