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Offline Kamaji

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Here’s what to expect in NYC Council primaries as early voting opens Saturday

By Bernadette Hogan, Nolan Hicks and Carl Campanile
June 11, 2023

The recent redistricting involving New York City Council seats has triggered some competitive June 27 primary races, and early voting in them begins Saturday.

Council seats are typically up for grabs every four years. But this election cycle is taking place two years after the 2021 elections, given the remapping of legislative districts last year.

It’s the second election cycle where the city Board of Elections will use rank-choice voting to determine a winner if the leading candidate gets less than 50% of the vote.

There are at least 10 competitive primary races across the city, including:

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/06/11/what-to-expect-in-nyc-council-primaries-as-early-voting-opens-saturday/

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Here’s what to expect:

The city could suffer a complete breakdown of civil order and be completely on fire, and the citizens would still vote Rat.
The Republic is lost.

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The city could suffer a complete breakdown of civil order and be completely on fire, and the citizens would still vote Rat.

Maybe not if things went that far, but since we're still above David Dinkins levels of trouble in NYC, yes, they will generally continue to vote 'Rat.

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"Here’s what to expect in NYC Council primaries as early voting opens Saturday..."

Left.
Lefter.
More leftist.
Even more left than that.
Extreme left.
The mostest leftist as you can get.