this came morning eric adams holds a narrow lead for the new york city s mayor. new york city board of elections issuing a new preliminary talley of votes after mistakenly counting 100,000 test ballots. give me a sense in this latest round how has the race shift snooped we re doing a rank election. look eric adams still ahead 32% of the vote, maya wiley 22%, kathryn garcia at 19%. we have rank choice voting system. people s fist, second, third choices. let s jump ahead to round seven. that was round one.
adams margin is 15,000 votes south. look at this. nearly 126,000. now the question is can kathryn garcia catch eric adams. look who is leading in the initial preferences on june 23rd in those districts. look at that. they are all in manhattan where kathryn garcia did very well and leading in those districts. it s quite plausible these absentee ballots are favoring kathryn garcia and could overtake eric adams. when do we get the final results? right. this is going on forever. not today. it s hanukkah for me. initial first choice came in on the 22nd. initial rank choice results from in person voting on the 30th
eric adams still ahead, 35.5. catherine garcia 24%. maya wiley 26%. andrew yang gets eliminated in round eight. eric adams is up to 48%. catherine garcia jumps ahead of maya wiley at 29.5. wiley in this latest round of counting. round nine, look at this. a very, very tight election after maya wiley s voters get re-all located. most of them go to catherine garcia. we still have what 124,000 absentee ballots and catherine garcia was with us yesterday. she feels positive about that. a lot of them come from her district. none of this count includes absentee ballots. it s something very key. all in person voting.