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This is the sprint for the town hall, a series with a limited run about the critical democratic primary race for mayor.

Voting range choices should be as easy as ordering a barbecue dish. Yet many New Yorkers remain confused about how it works. We will demystify it for you.

I am Dean Chang, and I supervise the New York Times reporting on the Mayoral Race in New York City. In today’s newsletter we look from close by how ranked Koordbepl worked primarily in the last mayors, explain why some candidates work together against former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and see how a Subway Aficionado intends to arrange his choices. But first the news.

The news

The advertisement that Andrew Cuomo cost $ 622,000

Former government Andrew M. Cuomo lost more than $ 600,000 to public matching funds on Monday, after the New York City Campaign Finance Board had concluded that His campaign is probably illegally coordinated With a super pac.

The penalty has so far the largest leveled against every mayor campaign, although Cuomo may be better positioned to endure it than its rivals. The Super Pac that supports him, repairing the city, has already collected $ 8 million. And he continued to see it to be sought while he leads in the polls.

But with another six weeks in the race, the latest substance emphasizes a recurring problem for the leader. While Cuomo sets up his reputation about competence, his campaign was marred by a surprising number of amateurist missteps.

He recently released a large housing plan without realizing pieces of incoherent text And work of chatgpt. Last month the city delayed him to pay millions of dollars in public matching funds after he had not followed the basic rules for reporting donations. (Much of that money was released on Monday.)

Everything has given its opponents at least an opening to renew two long -term criticism of Cuomo: that his leadership style is much messier than advertising, and that he has a preference to push the boundaries.

In this case, the Campaign Finance Board said that Cuomo seemed to ignore clear rules that prohibit coordination between campaigns and Super PACs.

Cuomo posted detailed instructions for helping his campaign on his website, a practice known as Red Boxing. A few days later the city spent the city $ 622,056 to run A TV advertisement of 30 seconds That reflected some requests from Cuomo.

The Campaign Finance Board concluded that there was a reason to assume ‘that the television commercial’ was not independent of the Cuomo campaign ‘.

Both the Cuomo campaign and Super PAC insist that the two were not connected and that the campaign is planning to appeal.

More news:

• Cuomo won a coveted approval In the weekend of representative Adriano Espaillat, a power broker in the Latino community. Espaillat Mayor Eric Adams supported in 2021. He leads a powerful group of chosen officials Known as the squadrianoWho dominates politics in North Manhattan and the Bronx.

• Fix The City reported the biggest contribution ever on Monday: $ 1 million from Doordash, which lobbys the town hall to charge the services of food release of higher costs. The donation was First reported by polico.

Map the race

Voices exhausted

Every mood counts, right? In the Democratic mayors Primary four years ago that was not entirely true.

It was the first time that the city used a mayor in a mayors. More than 140,000 ballot papers were not counted in the final round. They were considered ‘exhausted’ or inactive, because they include none of the last two candidates: Eric Adams, who eventually won, or Kathryn Garcia, as you can see in the image below.

If about 5 percent of those ballot papers had mentioned Garcia, she would have defeated Adams.

Let’s try to demystify this a bit.

Voters can choose no fewer than five candidates, in order of preference. During the election evening the first choice is voting in a table form; If someone gets more than half of those votes, that person is declared the winner. If nobody exceeds more than 50 percent, the other ranked choices will come into play. (Looking for a more detailed explanation? See here.))

We have one Round-by-Round Walk-Through About how ranked cord votes took place in 2021-a potential route map for this year’s primaryy.

Edition of the week

The ins and outs of ranked cord votes

Imagine a barbecue -Joint where each customer gets a metal tray with five compartments of different sizes and fill it with one of a dozen choices. At the end of the night, the restaurant determines its favorite dish based on what was chosen. That is in a nutshell how voting works in the ranking.

So who wouldn’t fill their tray? New York City voters, that’s who. In 2021, one in eight voters selected only one candidate. Half of those people mentioned Eric Adams.

Back to the barbecue put. Many voters walked away with just one thing in their tray. And for those who chose Adams, a kind of vegetarian, you didn’t even get a breast.

Choices, even if you decide, have not to do, consequences.

Range-choice voices is back this year, and this time the candidates-EVENS, trade unions and even some voters try to perform best strategies to maximize their chances.

Trade unions and left -wing organizations endorse various candidates and encourage their followers to list them all. Some discourage voters actively from ranking Cuomo, the current leader. Such a group calls itself dream, or do not rank harm and does not rank to the mayor.

Maya King, a political reporter who helped to cover the presidential race of 2024, has investigated some of the ranked cord theories that voters could use. This is what she learned.

Game theory-item strategy

If you are a Cuomo Superfan, You must rank it first. Given his leader status, it is likely that your voice will get the last round. However, ranking only one person can run the risk that even a dominant candidate such as the former governor can be overtaken in the last voting rounds. To maximize your ballot, use all five chances to rank a candidate, even if you are only there.

If there is a candidate, you certainly don’t want to winYou have to exclude that person from your ballot – exactly the mission of the dream initiative. The use of all five your slots increases the chances that your ballot alternators lives until the final round.

If Zohran Mamdani is your husband, He should get your top ranking. Mamdani supports dream, so if you want to follow his lead, arrange Cuomo. And Mamdani has promised to force at least one of his opponents in the coming weeks, so that will offer guidance for his fans about whom he should support him.

If you shoot for a long-shot candidate, Reserve your top slots for those you like best and consider the candidates they cross for your latest choices.

In the Primary 2021, Andrew Yang made a late stage approval from Garcia as his number 2, a movement that helped her to jump to second place about Maya Wiley, who was only 7.197 votes short of Adams. Could more deal be on the road this year? Emma Fitzsimmons has the newest.

Teamwork ensures that the dream work works

Now that Cuomo is steadily leading in the polls, it seems likely that in the coming weeks backlog of candidates will join forces in the hope of scare people to vote for him.

Jumaane Williams, the public lawyer of the city and a fierce critic of Cuomo, said that he discussed the idea with two candidates he intends to endorse: Brad Lander and Adrienne Adams.

“It is one of the things that I raise the need to be willing to cross other candidates and use it in full to vote ranked,” he said.

Some progressive Democrats believe that the best strategy is to consolidate around one candidate. Williams does not agree. Cross -killer enables the ballot of different candidates to stimulate each other, he said, and voters can choose their first choice and at the same time ‘someone else I can accept’.

The left-loving working family party endorsed four candidates country, Adrienne Adams, Mamdani and Zellnor Myrie-op an event where all four poor people are connected.

The Lander campaign said in a statement that he “would act strategically and consider level crossings to help Brad win and ensure that Andrew Cuomo will never be the next mayor of New York City.”

But there has also been some tension behind the scenes, while the candidates occurred as the strongest alternative to Cuomo. Mamdani and Lander both Recently representative Alexandria met Ocasio-Cortez while they are fighting for her approval, and that was there disagreement about how they can work together on anti-cuomo ads.

What is your ranked Keus ballot paper out?

Benjamin Kabak, Subway Aficionado

Benjamin Kabak, who has more than 40,000 followers As the person behind Second Avenue -Sagen, a prominent evangelist for the New York City metro has become.

Kabak has given support for congestie prices and has attacked the management of Cuomo of the transits system as governor. He plans to leave Cuomo from his mood and to rank five other Democrats to stop him.

His first choice: Lander, the City Comptroller, which recently one Transport plan of 29 pages This includes a promise to ensure that a train arrives every six minutes, even during nights and weekends.

In general, Kabak said that he gave priority to two factors: “Competent, progressive administration” and that Cuomo can beat: “We don’t need any other corrupt mayor who has not lived in the city and has no feeling in the success of a lively urban city.”

Kabak mentioned Adams, the speaker of the city council who has won a number of major notesFifth on his mood to maximize the chance that his ballot will survive to the final round under arranged cord.

“She has institutional support for the top Cuomo,” he said.

Photo of the week

Adrienne Adams hits the Haitian parade

Parades are a mayor race transition ritual, and last weekend’s Haitian culture day parade in Brooklyn was no exception. Mayor Adams was there, wore a blue bullet papate deck with the word ‘love’ at the front. Among other things, Democratic notables were Lander, Myrie and Whitney Tilson, a former hedge fund director who works as a candidate for pro-business.

But few seemed to embrace the festivities as much as Adrienne Adams, who served as Grand Marshal. Adams, who is not related to the mayor, has chased Cuomo in polls and tries to compete with him to win black voters, who are a crucial part of his ballot.

Adams has visited black churches where she is Known to join the choir to belt evangeli music. Brooklyn has one Great Haitian populationAnd the area where the parade took place is known as ‘Little Haiti’.

Dates to look

• June 4: The first democratic primary debate. (7 pm, WNBC TV.)

• June 12: The second debate, limited to leading contenders. (7 pm, NY1.)

• June 14-22: Vote early.

• June 24: Primary day. Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.