Thousands of New Yorkers who voted in last month’s New York City mayoral election either didn’t like their choices or wanted to make a statement of their own — so they exercised their vote with a write-in candidate.
Their write-in choices were revealed this week when the New York City Board of Elections released its official results of the 2021 general election. No write-in vote changed the outcome of the election, of course; Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams was elected mayor in a landslide. But the write-in votes — which included a gamut of other politicians, celebrities, athletes, public figures and even the dearly departed — gave a glimpse into what some voters were thinking when they headed to the polls on Election Day, Nov. 2, or during the early voting period.
