Gladys Fernandez, a New York City Board of Elections (NYCBOE) Staff Analyst assigned to the Electronic Coting Department in Queens, put in her Papers after the Borough Office Failed to catch 135,000 Test Ranked-Choice-Voting (RCV) Ballots that were erroneously included in the Official In-Person and Election Day Primary Election Ballot Results, on Tuesday, June 22nd.
Payroll Data from the Empire Center indicates Fernandez has been Employed by the NYCBOE since at least 2008 and last year, pulled in a salary of more than $105,000.
The Corrected Results left Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams with a Thin Lead over Kathryn Garcia, and Maya Wiley similarly within Striking Distance.
The Fallout continued over the course of the week as All Three leading Campaigns filed Lawsuits preserving their Right to Litigate the Final Count.
A quirk in the Election Law stipulates that Friday was the Last Day to take Legal Action, even though the Certified Results of the Primary aren't expected to be ready until the week of July 12th.
Wiley was the Last to head to Court, Thursday, and she said at a Press Briefing, earlier in the day, that Voters need to be Confident in the End Result. “What is most important to me — as a civil rights lawyer, as a New Yorker — and to the people of this city is that there is real clarity, that we can trust that every vote is being counted and counted accurately,” she said outside City Hall, hours before the Papers were filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
A day earlier, Garcia said:
while the error did not seem indicative of any fraudulence, she was worried the screw-up could nevertheless cast a pall on the outcome. I am concerned that it undermines people's confidence.”
Adams’ Campaign was One of the First to Call Tuesday’s Results into Question and has since Released a handful of Statements expressing appreciation to NYCBOE for Acknowledging the Error and reminding New Yorkers that 125,000 Returned Mail-In Ballots, which will decide the Race, also need to be Counted. “There are still absentee ballots to be counted that we believe favor Eric — and we are confident we will be the final choice of New Yorkers when every vote is tallied,” the Campaign said Wednesday.
The Final In-Person Vote Results after Nine Rounds of RCV:
- Eric L. Adams: 358,521 (51.1%)
- Kathryn A. Garcia: 343,766 (48.9%)
- Maya D. Wiley: Eliminated
CLICK HERE to View the RCV Rounds.
NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote! Michael H. Drucker
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