What comes next in the New York City mayors race?
That was always a possibility, of course, but the citys first pass at sorting through the cast ballots makes clear just how real that possibility is. Youll remember how it works. Each voter was able to choose up to five candidates, with the candidate they most wanted to win listed first. If that candidate was eliminated from contention by receiving the least votes, the voters ballot shifted to their second-most desired candidate and the votes recounted. If that second candidate was eliminated, the nod goes to the voters third-ranked, and so on. Its complicated, but the idea is both that runoff elections can be eliminated and that the winning candidate is the best reflection of the consensus of the voters.