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Polls close in Queens as voters wait
BY ANGÉLICA ACEVEDO & ZACHARY
GEWELB
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Voting sites across the borough
have closed Tuesday, June 22,
as of 9 p.m., marking the end of
the primary elections.
According to the city’s Board of Elections
(BOE), more than 35,000 Queens
residents — approximately 1.6 percent
of the borough’s population — took
advantage of early voting, which took
place from June 12 to 20, representing
about 18 percent of all the early votes
cast in New York City.
But Queens had the most absentee
ballots requested of any borough, with
more than 66,000 requested and more
than 23,000 completed ahead of Tuesday,
according to the BOE.
In-person voter turnout on June
22 seemed relatively low throughout
most of the day in polling sites across
the borough.
However, a worker at a polling site
in Rochdale Village at P.S. 80 was impressed
to see their turnout Tuesday
morning, telling QNS they didn’t “expect
this many people.”
In Astoria, two City Council candidates
and a comptroller candidate
continued campaigning near the P.S.
122 polling site, saying they were full of
energy and ready to continue talking
with potential voters.
Many Queens voters shared their
thoughts about this year’s election
process with QNS. Most seemed to
understand the newly implemented
ranked-choice voting system. But there
were some Queens voters who were still
skeptical about the new process, with
others confused about how to use it.
Nikki Breedlove, who voted at the
Rochdale Village Community Center,
said she thinks ranked-choice voting
“disenfranchises” the Black and brown
communities.
“Blacks and browns don’t turn out
the same way to vote like other areas,”
Breedlove said. “Then what happens?
We are the ones that suff er and it’s not
the other communities and that’s terrible.
We do vote, but we don’t vote in
primaries and we don’t vote when need
to vote and that hurts us.”
But the new voting system has been
found to not only benefi t those communities
in particular, but also elevate
candidates who are of color and who are
women, according to FairVote.org.
Although offi cial results won’t be fi -
nalized until July 12, below you will fi nd
the preliminary results from the city’s
Board of Elections for Queens borough
president and local City Council races
as of approximately 8 a.m. Wednesday
morning, June 23.
QUEENS BOROUGH
PRESIDENT
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
(95.45 PERCENT OF PRECINCTS
REPORTED)
Elizabeth Crowley: 40.20 percent of
the vote (62,738 votes)
Donovan Richards (incumbent):
41.53 percent of the vote (64,814 votes)
Jimmy Van Bramer: 17.82 percent of
the vote (27,813 votes)
CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 19
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
(99 PERCENT OF PRECINCTS
REPORTED)
Tony Avella: 37.10 percent of the vote
(3,883 votes)
Adriana Aviles: 8.46 percent of the
vote (885 votes)
Nabaraj KC: 1.46 percent of the vote
(153 votes)
Austin Shafran: 20.03 percent of the
vote (2,096 votes)
Richard J. Lee: 29.90 percent of the
vote (3,129 votes)
Francis E. Spangenberg: 2.53
percent of the vote (265 votes)
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
(99 PERCENT OF THE
PRECINCTS REPORTED)
John-Alexander Sakelos: 45.96 percent
of the vote (1,446 votes)
Vickie Paladino: 52.70 percent of the
vote (1,658 votes)
CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 20
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
(97.53 PERCENT OF THE
PRECINCTS REPORTED)
Hailing Chen: 15.32 percent of the
vote (1,265 votes)
John Choe: 16.56 percent of vote (1,367
votes)
Anthony Miranda: 15.32 percent of
the vote (1,265 votes)
Sandra Ung: 24.28 percent of the
vote (2,004 votes)
Neng Wang: 1,237 percent of the vote
(1,237 votes)
Ming-Kang Low: 0.45 percent of the
vote (37 votes)
Dao Yin: 5.14 percent of the vote (424
votes)
Ellen Young: 16.39 percent of the vote
(1,378 votes)
CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 21
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
(82.86 PERCENT OF PRECINCTS
REPORTED)
David Aiken Jr.: 16.43 percent of the
vote (844 votes)
Ingrid Gomez: 18.55 percent of the
vote (953 votes)
Francisco Moya (incumbent): 52.16
percent of the vote (2,680 votes)
George Onuorah: 6.01 percent of the
vote (309 votes)
Talea Wufk a: 6.34 percent of the vote
(326 votes)
CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 22
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
(95.45 PERCENT OF THE
PRECINCTS REPORTED)
Leonardo Bullaro: 7.29 percent of
the vote (1,011 votes)
Tiff any Cabán: 49.32 percent of the
vote (6,838 votes)
John J. Ciafone: 9.35 percent of the
vote (1,296 votes)
Catherina Gioino: 4.73 percent of the
vote (656 votes)
Evie Hantzopoulos: 26.26 percent of
the vote (3,641 votes)
Nicholas Velkov: 2.87 percent of the
vote (398 votes)
CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 23
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
(91.92 PERCENT OF PRECINCTS
REPORTED)
Steve Behar: 13.24 percent of the vote
(1,625 votes)
Jaslin Kaur: 26.37 percent of the vote
(3,327 votes)
Sanjeev Kumar Jindal: 9.34 percent
of the vote (1,146 votes)
Linda Lee: 31.20 percent of the vote
(3,829 votes)
Debra Markell: 9.87 percent of the
vote (1,211 votes)
Harpreet Singh Toor: 4.41 percent of
the vote (541 votes)
Koshy O. Thomas: 5.23 percent of the
vote (642 votes)
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
(91.92 PERCENT OF PRECINCTS
REPORTED)
Alex Amoroso: 29.42 percent of the
vote (399 votes)
James F. Reilly: 66.22 percent of the
vote (898 votes)
CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 24
A Group of young Ridgewood residents after casting their votes.
Photo by Julia Moro
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