The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Matt Booker, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.
Leading Off
●New York, NY Mayor: After an extraordinary debacle on Tuesday that involved the release and retraction of election results that mistakenly included test votes, the New York City Board of Elections published a new tabulation of the ranked-choice votes in last week's Democratic primary on Wednesday, showing Eric Adams clinging to a narrow 51-49 edge over Kathryn Garcia in the ninth and final round.
That's a considerable collapse compared to Adams' standing among first-choice voters, who currently give him a 32-22 lead over Maya Wiley. But crucially, none these tallies include any of the 125,000 absentee ballots that were returned by Tuesday's deadline, nor an unknown number of provisional ballots. Officials will not start counting absentees until next week, and it could be some time before final results are known.