New York City, NY Mayor: New York City's Board of Election released its first set of ranked-choice tabulations for last week's primary on Tuesday, showing Eric Adams' wide 29-20 lead in first-preference votes over Maya Wiley collapsing to a narrow 51-49 edge over Kathryn Garcia in the 11th and final round. However—and this is a very big "however"—not a single absentee ballot has yet been counted, and none will be included in any tallies before next week.
Those absentees could prove decisive: As of Monday (the penultimate day for ballots to be received), almost 125,000 mail-in ballots had been received, with the largest share—32%—coming from Manhattan, Garcia's best borough with early and Election Day voters. (By contrast, 28% of in-person votes were cast in Manhattan.) They could also completely reshape the last round of the race, because at the end of the 10th round, Garcia led Wiley by just 3,806 votes, meaning that Wiley could very well end up as one of the two finalists.
Patience will be necessary, as election officials have previously said they would not have a "more complete" count of absentee ballots until the week of July 12—and there's no word at all as to when we'll have a final tally. They've also said that RCV tabulations will only be performed once a week, on Tuesdays.
Restraint, however, nowhere to be found when it comes to Adams, who immediately issued a Trump-esque statement arguing that the fact that additional votes have been counted since election night somehow "rais[es] serious questions" and claiming that there have been unspecified "other irregularities." Adams offered no details or evidence to support his assertions.