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Voting in New York City s Democratic primary for mayor finished a week ago, but the election nonetheless just took a dramatic turn. Allocation of second-choice votes a key feature of the ranked-choice voting system that New York is using for the first time has propelled former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia from a distant third place all the way to a close second, only two points behind the leader, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. With approximately 125,000 absentee ballots yet to be counted more than eight times the margin between Adams and Garcia a stunning upset is still possible.