Mayor Bill de Blasio called mayoral candidates Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia’s move to join forces during the campaign trail “opportunistic,” during a Monday press conference.
On Saturday, Yang and Garcia encouraged each other’s supporters to mark the other candidate as no.2 on their ranked choice voting ballot during the city’s Democratic primary election on Tuesday, June 22 during a campaign event in Flushing, Queens.
Instead of choosing a single candidate, during this year’s mayoral primary election New Yorkers will use a special ballot to rank up to five candidates by order of preference. The candidate with the most votes, over 50%, will win just like in any other election. But if a single candidate does not have a majority, a new counting process begins.
