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  • Tanmay Shah Wins Ward 12 Council Race, Unseats Incumbent Danny Kelly – Cleveland Scene

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    The results of the Ward 12 election, easily the most nail-biting amongst City Council candidacies, will be confirmed by mid-December after a recount, Cuyahoga County Board of Elections members said in a meeting Tuesday morning.

    But it certified the results this morning, which showed Tanmay Shah winning by nine votes after final mail-in ballots and provisional votes were counted after Election Day, where Shah led by seven votes.

    On Dec. 1, the BOE is to begin a recount for five elections—for the Bedford City Schools board; North Randall Village Council; North Royalton Council; Orange City Schools board and Cleveland Ward 12—followed by a required audit of each re-triggered tally.

    “We’ll start with Ward 12, Cleveland Ward 12, because that’s what everyone’s interested in,” Ballot Department Manager Brian Cleary told the board.

    Board members agreed on the recount and audit schedule, will both aiming to wrap up by Dec. 9, BOE Deputy Director Anthony Perlatti said during Tuesday’s meeting. 

    If the process “goes as we hope” it will, he said, all five recounted elections would be finalized the day after, on Dec. 10. And by the following BOE meeting mid-December.

    If Shah’s win is certified in the recount, he’ll be the only City Council candidate to defeat an incumbent in this year’s race. And he’ll be the youngest, at 29, and the only outspokenly democratic socialist sitting in Council Chamber. And the only one of South Asian descent.

    Modern recounts rarely change the outcome, one BOE official told Scene.

    “I’ll tell you, in the 20 years I’ve been doing this, I’ve never seen one race flip after a recount,” they said.

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  • EARLY VOTING: Who’s been participating in the NYC Mayor’s Race so far? Data shows some surprising trends | amNewYork

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    A person cast their vote duing the first day of early voting in the general election in Brooklyn on Oct. 25, 2025.

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    More than a quarter-million New Yorkers have already cast ballots in the 2025 NYC mayoral general election — and most of them appear to be Democrats and/or older, according to an amNewYork analysis of unofficial early voting data.

    That would seem to provide good news for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a 67-year-old registered Democrat now running an independent campaign, who has consistently led among older voters in recent polls. The frontrunner in the race — Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old Democratic party nominee — has had younger voters firmly in his corner in those same surveys.

    Of the roughly 223,268 New Yorkers who have voted early between Oct. 25-27, 74% were registered Democrats, according to preliminary data from the New York City Board of Elections (BOE). Nearly 13% are registered Republicans, and 11% did not list a party affiliation.

    Both Cuomo and Mamdani, as Democrats, are targeting Democratic voters; Cuomo has also attempted to appeal to Republicans and independents. 

    Voters over 55 made up the plurality of those who have voted early so far, with a combined 41% of those who cast ballots either qualifying as a Baby Boomer or a member of the “Greatest Generation” and “Silent Generation” — as defined by the Pew Research Center. “Generation X” — those aged 39 to 54 — made up 24% of early voters.

    Younger voters, including “Millennials” and “Generation Z” — those aged 18-38, accounted for the remaining 34% of voters.

    amNewYork’s findings would seem to confirm data analysis in a Gothamist report on Monday, which found that most of the early voters during the weekend were skewing older.

    On Tuesday, Cuomo said he was encouraged by the early turnout of older voters. “I think as long as the voters are smart, I’m in very good shape,” he said during an event where he received the endorsement of former Gov. David Paterson.

    Turnout will be the ultimate factor in the mayor’s race. Mamdani has consistently led in the polls, but the race has tightened as Election Day, Nov. 4, draws nearer. 

    The Mamdani campaign has boasted of having more than 85,000 volunteers, and indicated it is using the entire operation to get out the vote through Election Day. The candidate said he remains “confident in our campaign.”

    Across the five boroughs, Brooklyn leads in the number of early votes cast so far with 67,608. Manhattan comes second with 67,075, then Queens with 52,062, the Bronx with 19,094, and Staten Island with 17,059.

    Early voting continues through Sunday, Nov. 2, at select sites across the five boroughs. Regular polling sites are open on Election Day, Nov. 4, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. To find your early voting site or regular polling place, visit vote.nyc. 

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  • Cleveland Heights Voters Overwhelmingly Decide to Oust Mayor Seren in Recall Election

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    Over 80 percent of voters decided Cleveland Heights Mayor Kahlil Seren was no longer fit for office, Tuesday’s election results show.

    Voters in Cleveland Heights decided to recall embattled Mayor Kahlil Seren in Tuesday’s election, the results from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections showed in an unofficial count.

    As of Wednesday morning, 8,307 voters turned out to polls across the city to cast their decision on the issue; a whopping 6,829 of them decided that Seren was no longer fit to lead. The city needed a simple majority to oust Seren three months before the end of his term in January.

    Josie Moore, a 2021 mayoral candidate that helped back Seren’s recall campaign, said she believes Cleveland Heights made the right decision.

    “The people of Cleveland Heights were clear: we could not afford to wait,” Moore told Scene. “We must now act to protect our city.”

    “This wasn’t about politics. It was about responsibility,” she added. “To our city employees, to our finances and to our future.”

    After the results are certified on September 26, Cleveland Heights’ first elected mayor will be forced to concede his seat to City Council President Tony Cuda, who will act as mayor until January 1.

    In early June, Moore and a handful of colleagues traversed Cleveland Heights with fellow supporters to try and validate a recall they all felt was long overdue. They collected 3,845 signatures—well over the 2,900 needed.

    Seren, they claimed, was unfit to lead. He and wife Natalie McDaniel had become embroiled in a series of scandals, including anti-semitic remarks, multiple instances of unprofessional behavior, allegations of wiretapping, and McDaniel’s indictment on trespassing charges.

    There was, Moore and others wrote in a letter this summer, “a pattern of leadership failures that place the city at risk.” Those that, they claimed, led to “extremely high” staff turnover, the resignation of three city administrators and a my-way-or-the-highway take on management that “fostered public alarm and distrust.”

    Seren’s successor will undeniably have to tackle issues of trust when they take the seat from Cuda in January.

    In Tuesday’s primary mayoral election, Jim Petras and Davida Russell, both on Cleveland Heights City Council, finished with roughly 28 percent of the vote each. The two will face off in a general election in November.

    Cleveland Heights City Hall has not released an official statement on the election results thus far, and did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.

    “We will not speculate about outcomes. We will await the Board of Elections’ official results and, as required, certification,” Seren wrote in a statement Tuesday afternoon.

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  • DC Board of Elections OKs placing ranked choice voting, opening primaries to independents on ballot – WTOP News

    DC Board of Elections OKs placing ranked choice voting, opening primaries to independents on ballot – WTOP News

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    The District of Columbia’s Board of Elections has decided that voters should choose whether they want to institute ranked choice voting and open primary elections to independent voters.

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    The District of Columbia’s Board of Elections has decided that voters should choose whether they want to institute ranked choice voting and open primary elections to independent voters.

    On Friday, the board went along with the recommendations of its executive director, Monica Evans, and approved Initiative 83, also known as the “Ranked Choice Voting and Open the Primary Elections to Independent Voters Act of 2024,” which would place the item on the November general election ballot.

    BOE senior policy adviser Alice Miller, speaking on behalf of Evans, said more than 35,000 eligible signatures were received on petitions to put the issues on the ballot, far more than the 5% minimum of registered voters.

    Under ranked choice voting, rather than the current process of casting a single vote, a voter can choose their favorite candidate, then rank back up choices second, third, fourth and fifth.

    The measure would also allow independent voters to cast a ballot in a primary election. Currently, only registered Democrats and Republicans are allowed to vote in each of their party’s primaries.

    In a statement, Lisa D.T. Rice, with the group Make All Votes Count DC — which advocated for ranked choice voting — thanked the Board of Elections for validating tens of thousands of D.C. voters’ signatures.

    “These and many more D.C. voters have told us how Initiative 83 would finally give independents a vote in the primary, as well as allow all D.C. voters to use ranked choice voting to hold politicians accountable to a majority of voters,” said Rice.

    BOE Chairman Gary Thompson said the agency doesn’t take a position on either issue.

    “Take the issue to the voters. At the end of the day, it’s an initiative about how voters should vote,” Thompson said. “And who should decide how voters should vote, (but) the voters.”

    Thompson said each side has “excellent and reasonable arguments” to take to the voters, whether they prefer to change voting procedures.

    “Educate them,” Thompson said. “People have heard about this, but I think our voters have a long way to go before November to really hear out both sides.”

    Thompson said he looks forward to hearing both sides of the argument on whether to implement ranked choice voting and allow independents to vote in primaries.

    He said he too remains undecided “like probably a lot of people in D.C.”

    The act will take effect after a 30-day period of Congressional review under the Home Rule Act, which allows the District government to pass local laws.

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