NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – Early voting ends Sunday in New York City, as the mayoral candidates make their final pitches ahead of Tuesday's primary election.
More than 100,000 voters have already turned out to take advantage of early voting, which began June 12.
While the city's mayoral races are often unpredictable, this primary is especially hard to predict because it will be the first to use ranked-choice voting, with voters ranking up to five candidates.
Under the city's system, ranked choice procedures only kick in if no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote. With such a large field of legitimate contenders, that’s likely to happen this year in the Democratic primary.
A recent New York Post poll still shows violent crime as the top issue among voters, overwhelmingly beating out other issues like housing, jobs, police reform, pandemic recovery and education.
Top contenders Eric Adams and Maya Wiley have been going back and forth on the issue of crime, with the Brooklyn borough president disputing the civil rights attorney’s claims that he wants to bring back stop-and-frisk. Adams said if he’s elected police officers would not use any tools that are abusive.
Former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia, who has moved up quickly in the race, campaigned with entrepreneur Andrew Yang on Saturday. While Yang encouraged his supporters to add Garcia to their ballots, Garcia said she wouldn’t tell her supporters who to vote for.
After the primary election, the Democratic and Republican candidates will face off in the general election in November.
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