NOW, WE WAIT 
 Brooklynites hit the polls on Election Day  
 but offi cial results will take some time 
 (Top) A slow but steady stream of voters utilized the polls at Fort Hamilton High School on Election Day, June 22. (Right) Poll workers register a  
 voter.  Photos by Paul Frangipane 
 BY ANGÉLICA ACEVEDO,  
 ROBERT POZARYCKI &  
 MEAGHAN MCGOLDRICK 
 Election Day has fi nally  
 come and gone, and New York  
 City residents hit the polls  
 to cast the last ballots in the  
 hotly contested primaries for  
 mayor and other citywide offi  
 ces. 
 New Yorkers had nine days  
 for early voting, from June 12  
 to June 20, ahead of June 22.  
 According to the city’s Board  
 of Elections, approximately  
 191,197 residents took advantage  
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 of early voting, which  
 is just under 20 percent of  
 the early turnout seen in the  
 November  2020  presidential  
 election in the fi ve  boroughs.  
 Across Brooklyn, approximately  
 65,516 residents — or  
 just 2.5 percent of the borough  
 population  —  participated  in  
 early voting. 
 An  estimated  799,827  
 New Yorkers voted Tuesday,  
 283,392  of  them  in  Brooklyn,  
 according to the city Board of  
 Election. 
 This is also the fi rst  primary  
 to employ ranked-choice  
 voting. The new system allows  
 voters  to  rank  up  to  fi ve  candidates  
 per offi ce. If a candidate  
 receives more than 50 percent  
 of the fi rst-choice  votes,  
 they  win;  but  if  no  candidate  
 earns more than 50 percent of  
 the fi rst-choice votes, then the  
 votes will be tallied in rounds. 
 At the end of each round,  
 the candidate with the fewest  
 votes will be eliminated. If the  
 eliminated candidate had been  
 the fi rst choice on a ballot, the  
 vote then transfers to whoever  
 was the second choice on the  
 ballot. 
 The process continues until  
 there are two candidates  
 left. The candidate with the  
 most votes is the winner. 
 In almost no time, the people  
 of Brooklyn and the city  
 as a whole cast their ranked  
 ballots for some of the most  
 important  offi ces in the city  
 — perhaps the most consequential  
 election  for  New  
 York City in years — including  
 mayor, comptroller, public  
 advocate, borough presidents  
 and City Council. 
 A slow, but steady  
 stream 
 For poll workers at Fort  
 Hamilton High School in Bay  
 Ridge, there was a slow, but  
 steady stream of voters early  
 Tuesday  morning.  Booths  
 were never even close to full,  
 per a Brooklyn Paper photographer  
 on the scene, but the  
 people were making their way  
 in to make their voices heard. 
 While things ran smoothly  
 at Fort Hamilton, other polling  
 sites across the borough  
 had rockier starts. 
 “I wake up at 6:30 which is  
 a feat in itself,” said one voter  
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