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
is just under 20 percent of
the early turnout seen in the
November 2020 presidential
election in the fi ve boroughs.
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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.
of early voting, which
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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