With a handful of critical races in the Nov. 3 city elections still up for grabs, all attention is turning to absentee ballots.
The Board of Elections says ballots will start being opened citywide on Nov. 15 at 10 am, and results for each district will be posted the day each of them are counted.
Many elections, like Borough President Eric Adams’ victor in the mayor’s race, and Park Slope Councilmember Brad Lander’s elevation to the comptroller’s office, have already been decided, as their election day margins were overwhelming.
But in southern Brooklyn, the yet-to-be-counted votes are monumentally important to races like the 43rd Council District in Bay Ridge, where incumbent Democrat Justin Brannan slightly trails Republican challenger Brian Fox, with over 1,500 Democratic absentee ballots to be counted and 214 Republican ballots unopened.
