Interactive: What Is Ranked-Choice Voting and How Does It Work?

Interactive: What is ranked-choice voting and how does it work?

This is the last weekend for early voting in New York City’s primary elections. Those officially take place on Tuesday. New Yorkers can vote for city officials like mayor, public advocate, comptroller and more — all using ranked-choice voting. But what exactly is ranked-choice voting? It was first implemented in the 2021 primary elections, after New Yorkers passed a 2019...

Mayoral Primary -- Early Voting Continues

(New York, NY) — There have been some last minute surprises in the run up to Tuesday’s New York City Democratic mayoral primary. On Monday, The New York Times editorial board warned it’s readers not to vote for Democratic Assemblyman Zoran Mamdani. The board wrote  “We do not believe that Mr. Mamdani deserves a spot on New Yorkers’ ballots. His experience is too thin and his agenda reads like a turbocharged version of Mr. de Blasio’s dismaying m…

Talk Mayor to Me: Staten Island Ferry and the Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street Station

With early voting rolling and Primary Day less than one week away, Hell Gate is hitting the streets to hear from New Yorkers about the issues that are most important to them, and who they like (and don't like) in the Democratic mayoral primary race. Read our other editions in this series here.(Olivia Bensimon / Hell Gate)Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street StationIn Jackson Heights this week, where the results of the Democratic primary …