Councilman accuses Eric Adams’ rivals of undermining minority votes

A prominent city councilman and supporter of leading Democratic mayoral candidate Eric Adams on Wednesday accused primary rivals Kathryn Garcia, Maya Wiley and Andrew Yang of exploiting the city’s new ranked-choice voting system to devalue the ballots of black and Latino New Yorkers.

Councilman I. Daneek Miller — a Queens Democrat who co-chairs the council’s Black, Latino and Asian Caucus — also bemoaned the “cumbersome process of waiting” for the final results, not slated to be released until weeks after the primary. “Let me add my voice to the chorus of those disappointed that the candidate who consistently polled as having the largest share of black and Latino voters was attacked this weekend by a ranked-choice voting alliance of three candidates with the largest share of white voters,” said Miller in a statement, referring respectively to Adams and the trio of Garcia, Wiley and Yang.