The New York City Board of Elections has completed the recanvass of machine votes in the mayoral Democratic primary election.
A spokeswoman says the machine totals were completed Sunday night. They’ll be announced Monday afternoon.
The board scheduled the counting of paper ballots for 10 a.m. Monday.
There are 78,000 paper ballots. They will have to be validated before the results can be released by the middle or end of this week.
The vote recanvassing is necessary because it’s unclear if Public Advocate Bill de Blasio won the 40 percent needed to avoid an Oct. 1 runoff with former City Comptroller William Thompson.
(AP)