CNN’s Athena Jones on NYC Mayor’s Race: NY Board of Elections Has a History of Messing Up

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JONES: "Well, it’s a mess. They bungled this. It sounds like it was a simple error with not clearing the computer but still it doesn’t inspire confidence. That statement that the Board of Elections put out late last night, they explained ballot images used for testing were not cleared from the election management system. They have to do these prequalification tests for the system. So approximately these 135,000 additional records were included in the vote. And this is something that Eric Adams, one of the candidates who had been in the lead and still is in the lead, at least we think, he put out a statement around 5:00, a couple hours after they put out these initial results --"
HARLOW: "Yeah."
JONES: "-- calling into question this discrepancy, saying why are there more than 100,000 extra votes than we thought were cast --"
HARLOW: "At all."
JONES: "-- on Election Day? So, this took awhile for the Board of Elections to clear up. And it's still not entirely clear, and the bottom line is, this is a board that has a history of messing up and this part is not -- is not designed to inspire confidence at all."