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New vote totals show tighter Democratic race for New York City mayor

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    June 30 (Reuters) - New vote tallies released on Wednesday in New York City's Democratic mayoral race showed Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams' lead narrowing considerably over his nearest rivals, a day after election officials threw the contest into confusion by posting, and then removing, erroneous vote totals.

    The latest figures put Kathryn Garcia, the city's former sanitation chief, only slightly behind Adams, with Maya Wiley, a former MSNBC analyst and civil rights lawyer, in a close third.

    After eight rounds of elimination, Adams had 41% of the vote, with Garcia just under 30% and Wiley fewer than 400 votes behind her. When Wiley's votes were reallocated in the 9th and final round, Adams finished with 51%, while Garcia stood at 49%.

    The city Board of Elections intends to rerun the ranked choice analysis next week, incorporating at least some absentee ballots.

    The board had posted an initial ranked-choice tabulation on Tuesday but was forced to pull it down after realizing the totals included some 135,000 test ballots that were never removed from the software.

    The snafu was the latest in a series of problems for the board, whose reputation for dysfunction has drawn criticism for years. Last year, during the pandemic, it sent many absentee ballots too late to be used and printed the wrong voters' names on some envelopes; two hotly contested congressional races took six weeks to count.