She was in third place in last week’s preliminary tally in the mayoral race and could have a difficult time overtaking her rivals.
Maya Wiley finished third in a preliminary tally of votes in the New York City mayor’s race last week, but she believes she still has a path to victory.
“It remains a deeply competitive race,” said Ms. Wiley, a former counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio, as she stood in front of City Hall last week and called for every vote to be counted.
Ms. Wiley is hoping that a new tally of votes on Tuesday that includes most of absentee ballots will help her overtake her two leading rivals, Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, and Kathryn Garcia, the city’s former sanitation commissioner.
Under the city’s new ranked-choice voting system, Ms. Wiley would have lost if only in-person votes were counted. The preliminary results, without absentee ballots, showed she would be eliminated in the ninth round after trailing Ms. Garcia by fewer than 350 votes.
Mathematically, it is still possible for her to prevail in the end, though she needs to win a significant chunk of the absentee votes in parts of the city where she did well on Primary Day. She polled strongly in neighborhoods known for younger progressive voters, including Williamsburg in Brooklyn, Long Island City in Queens and the East Village in Manhattan.
She must also be ranked second or third by many of the voters who preferred losing candidates like Andrew Yang and Scott Stringer.
But Ms. Garcia has a significant advantage in Manhattan, the borough with the most absentee votes, while Mr. Adams is strong across the other boroughs of Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island. In addition, Ms. Garcia struck a late alliance with Mr. Yang, the 2020 presidential candidate who has already conceded in the mayoral race, and may be more likely to be ranked second on the ballots of his supporters.
Still, Ms. Wiley consolidated support among progressive leaders like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during the final weeks of the race, and she did better than expected on Primary Day, receiving more first-choice votes than Ms. Garcia.
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