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Zohran Mamdani Won in a Double-Digit Blowout, NYC Ballot Results Confirm (truthout.org)

submitted 1 week ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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The last round of ranked-choice ballots showed the left-wing candidate winning 56 percent of the votes, to Cuomo’s 44.

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[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 73 points 1 week ago (10 children)

The DNC is gonna work hard to destroy ranked choice voting, aren’t they?

[–] drbluefall@toast.ooo 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In NYC at least, that would require repealing the amendment to the City Charter - a move that would be extremely unpopular, given that the ballot measure to amend the charter for ranked-choice primaries passed with >70% support (or over 500,000 votes).

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