>> WOULD THEY WANT TO BE WITH
YOU.
>> MOST DEFINITELY NOT.
IM PUTTING THAT OUT THERE, IM
TOTALLY FINE WITH EITHER.
>> WITH THAT IN MIND, WHY DONT
WE START WITH THE CHAOS IN THE
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.
>> OH, MY GOD, HOW DO THESE
PEOPLE EVER COMPLAIN ABOUT
ANYBODY ELSES VOTING PROBLEMS?
I MEAN, NEW YORK CITY, AND WEVE
SAID THIS FOR YEARS, ITS
HORRIFIC.
ITS ANTIQUATED, ITS
INCESTUOUS, ITS CORRUPT, ITS A
DISASTER, AND HERE THEY GO,
WERE GOING TO TRY TO SPIN 48
PLATES ON OUR NOSE WHILE JUMPING
ON A TRAMPOLINE.
OR SOME LAYMEN MAY CALL IT,
RANKED CHOICE VOTING.
THEY CANT EVEN GET SINGLE
CHOICE VOTING RIGHT.
AND NOW THEYRE TRYING THIS, AND
ITS ONCE AGAIN, THEYRE SHOWING
JUST HOW INCOMPETENT THEY ARE.
>> THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY RACE
FOR NEW YORK CITY MAYOR GOT EVEN
MORE CONFUSING LAST NIGHT WHEN
ELECTION OFFICIALS RELEASED AND
THEN RETRACTED THEIR LATEST VOTE
COUNT.
JUST HOURS AFTER POSTING NEW
RESULTS THAT SHOWED FORMER CITY
SANITATION COMMISSIONER
KATHERINE GARCIA DRASTICALLY
CUTTING INTO THE LEAD OF FORMER
POLICE CAPTAIN ERIC ADAMS.
THE CITYS BOARD OF ELECTIONS
REMOVED THOSE RESULTS FROM ITS
WEB SITE ACCORDING TO THE
B.O.E., 135,000 VOTES THAT WERE
PUT INTO THE SYSTEM FOR TESTING
PURPOSES ONLY HAD NEVER BEEN
CLEARED.
THIS CAUSED ADAMS 10 POINT LEAD
TO SHRINK TO A MERE 2 POINTS.
ADAMS, THE BROOKLYN BOROUGH
PRESIDENT HAD ALREADY RAISED
CONCERNS ABOUT THE ELECTION
PROCESS EVEN BEFORE THIS MIX UP.
NEW YORK CITY USED --
>> BY THE WAY, I MEAN, YOU KNOW,
SOME PEOPLE SAID, OH, THATS
LIKE TRUMP.
NO, LOOK, MY DOG MEETAT BALL THE
CAT HAVE RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT
NEW YORKS ELECTION SYSTEM.
THERES NOTHING DRAMATIC ABOUT
IT, ITS BEEN CORRUPT OUR ENTIRE
LIFE.
>> WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT
FOR WEEKS, AND, YOU KNOW, HAVING
ALL DIFFERENT SIDES OF IT
EXPLAINED, IM NOT SURE HOW MANY
OTHER PLACES DO VOTING LIKE
THIS, BUT NEW YORK CITY USED
THIS RANKED CHOICE VOTING SYSTEM
FOR THIS YEARS PRIMARIES.
ITS A METHOD WHICH HAD NEVER
BEEN USED BY THE CITY BEFORE AND
HERE WE GO, NEVER TRIED ANYWHERE
IN THIS COUNTRY ON THIS SCALE IN
A STATEMENT.
>> IM NOT GOING TO CALL THEM
IDIOTS FOR DOING THIS.
>> IN A STATEMENT, THE BOARD OF
ELECTIONS APOLOGIZED FOR THE
ERROR, AND SAID IT HAD TAKEN
QUOTE IMMEDIATE MEASURES TO
ENSURE THE MOST ACCURATE,
UP-TO-DATE RESULTS ARE
REPORTING.
>> THEY THEN WALKED OUT THE
FRONT DOOR AND WENT AND MARRIED
THEIR COUSINS AT THE SAME TIME.
HOLD ON A SECOND, JONATHAN
LEMIRE, LET ME READ FROM THE
"NEW YORK TIMES," JUST SO PEOPLE
UNDERSTAND, WHEN WE HAVE BEEN
TALKING ABOUT HOW BAD NEW YORK
VOTING IS, NOW YOU ALWAYS BRING
IT UP AS PEOPLE TALK ABOUT
GEORGIA OR TEXAS OR WHATEVER,
YOU WANT TO VOTE IN GEORGIA
BEFORE YOU WANT TO VOTE IN NEW
YORK.
ITS JUST, YOU WANT TO VOTE IN
TEXAS BEFORE YOU WANT TO VOTE IN
NEW YORK.
YOU WANT TO VOTE IN HELL BEFORE
YOU WANT TO VOTE IN NEW YORK
CITY.
AND BY THE WAY, ITS UP TO NEW
YORK STATE TO CHANGE THAT, AND
THEY HAVENT DONE THAT.
SO LISTEN TO THIS, JONATHAN,
ABOUT THIS CORRUPT INCESTUOUS
BLIGHT ON AMERICAN DEMOCRACY,
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" WRITES
THIS, THIS IS THE HISTORY.
IN 1940, A CITY INVESTIGATION
FOUND IT WAS PLAGUED BY QUOTE
ILLEGALITY, INEFFICIENCY, LAXITY
AND WASTE.
THATS IN 1940.
IN 1971, A TIMES EDITORIAL
DERIDED IT QUOTE AT BEST, A
SEMIFUNCTION
SEMIFUNCTIONING ACRONISM, AND AN
BARSING LACK
EMBARRASSING BACK OF
UNDERSTANDING.
REFORM SEEMED INEVITABLE AFTER
CITY DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATION
RELEASED A SCATHING REPORT IN
2013.
INVESTIGATORS FOUND QUOTE
ILLEGALITIES, MISCONDUCT, AND
ANTIQUATED OPERATIONS, INCLUDING
HERE IT COMES, HERE IT COMES,
INCLUDING THAT NEARLY 10% OF
EMPLOYEES WERE RELATED TO EACH
OTHER.
WHEN I SAY INCESTUOUS AND
CORRUPT, IT IS ONE OF THE MOST
INCESTUOUS, CORRUPT AGENCIES
STILL EXISTING IN THIS
DEMOCRACY, JONATHAN.
YOU WORK FOR THE DAILY NEWS,
GIVE US A LITTLE INSIGHT INTO
JUST HOW BAD IT IS.
BY THE WAY, TALK ABOUT HOW TOUGH
IT IS VOTING IN NEW YORK.
I CALLED WILLIE.
I CALLED ALL OF MY FRIENDS
DURING THE VOTING PROCESS, THREE
HOURS, FOUR HOURS.
LIKE ITS ALWAYS IMPOSSIBLE TO
VOTE IN NEW YORK.
>> YEAH, LETS REMEMBER HOW SLOW
THEY ALSO ARE IN TABULATING
RESULTS EVEN SETTING ASIDE THIS
DEBACLE BUT IT CAN TAKE WEEKS
AND WEEKS.
DURING THE LAST YEARS ELECTION,
THE RACES WERENT CERTIFIED FAR
AFTER STATES THAT HAD COME UNDER
SCRUTINY FOR HOW THEY PROCESSED
THEIR ELECTION, INCLUDING
GEORGIA AND OTHERS.
NEW YORK STATE IS TERRIBLY SLOW,
AND NEW YORK CITY, I WAS AT THE
DAILY NEWS FOR A LONG TIME,
KEEPING A KEEN EYE ON THIS ONE
TOO.
AND IT IS STAGGERING JUST HOW
INCOMPETENT IT WAS.
MAYA WILEY, ONE OF THE LEADING
CONTENDERS FOR THE RACE PUT OUT
A STATEMENT YESTERDAY BASICALLY
SAYING, AND IM PARAPHRASING,
YOU CANT BE SURPRISED AT THIS
POINT AT HOW INEPT THIS PROCESS
IS BECAUSE TIME AND TIME AGAIN,
THEY FAIL.
AS YOU MENTIONED, TURNING DOWN
MONEY THAT COULD HAVE LED TO
IMPROVEMENTS.
TO THAT, THEY DIDNT CLEAR THE
ROLES OF THESE TEST BALLOTS
WHERE FOR HOURS YESTERDAY, IT
LOOKED LIKE THE MAYORS RACE HAD
COMPLETELY SPUN ON ITS HEAD,
ADAMS LEAD HAD ALL BEEN VANISHED
TO GARCIA, AND THEN THE BOARD OF
ELECTIONS JUST SIMPLY WITHDREW
THOSE NUMBERS AND TOOK HOURS
BEFORE THEY OFFERED ANY SORT OF
EXPLANATION AS TO WHAT HAPPENED
JUST FURTHER SOWING CHAOS AND
CONFUSION FRANKLY AT A TIME WHEN
AMERICANS DONT HAVE NECESSARILY
A LOT OF FAITH IN THEIR VOTING
SYSTEM BECAUSE OF THE DOUBTS
PLANTED BY FORMER PRESIDENT
TRUMP AND HIS CRONIES.
ILL SPARE THE YANKEE FAN JOKE