Nets BLASTED Georgia’s Elections Legislation, However Bury New York Debacle

The networks this spring and summer season blasted states like Georgia for election safety legal guidelines, deriding them as racist energy grabs. However when the deeply liberal and Democratic state of New York suffered an enormous debacle on Tuesday, the networks have been nearly silent. ABC’s Good Morning America on Wednesday supplied ZERO protection to New York Metropolis’s mayoral race descending into chaos as over 100 thousand check ballots by accident have been included within the voting totals.    

NBC’s Today present allowed a scant 31 seconds and CBS This Morning mirrored that with simply 32 seconds of protection. In whole, these three morning reveals are six hours lengthy, however allowed simply 63 seconds. GMA devoted 3 minutes and 1 seconds as to whether pot prospects are getting ripped off by low ranges of THC of their marijuana. So, clearly, there was time out there for an really essential story. 

Right here is CBS’s protection from co-host Anthony Mason: 

New York Metropolis’s mayoral race was thrown into disarray final night time after officers launched the incorrect outcomes. The town’s board of elections says 135,000 check ballots have been by accident included within the rely for spherical two of the town’s rank selection vote tally. The preliminary announcement mirrored a really shut race within the Democratic main between Brooklyn borough President Eric Adams and former sanitation commissioner Catherine Garcia. However now there shall be a recount. This comes at a delicate time for the board of elections which has confronted accusations of incompetence up to now. Below New York Metropolis’s guidelines, it might be weeks earlier than the first’s winner is introduced. Oops. 

Oops, certainly.

Right here’s the NBC protection from Tom Llamas: 

Now to a poll discrepancy creating confusion and frustration right here in New York Metropolis within the Democratic mayoral main. Yesterday, the Board of Elections launched new outcomes displaying a good race, however then simply hours later, the brand new numbers have been eliminated after officers discovered 135,000 check ballots have been by accident included within the tally. Now they’ll must recalculate a number of rounds of ranked-choice voting. That is the primary time the town is utilizing that system. We might not know the official winner till mid-July. 

Mid-July? With all of the outrage over Georgia, you’d suppose the networks would present related disgust over New York Metropolis. However This Morning’s Dokoupil summed up the liberal hypocrisy by dismissing, “We would like them to get it proper, not quick.” How about each? Perhaps election outcomes that take lower than a month? 

The excusing of New York Metropolis’s incompetence was sponsored on CBS by Progressive insurance. On NBC’s As we speak, it was McDonald’s. The hiding of the story on ABC was sponsored by Dove soap. Click on on the hyperlinks to allow them to know what you suppose. 

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CBS This Morning
6/30/2021
7:25 AM 
32 seconds 

ANTHONY MASON: New York Metropolis’s mayoral race was thrown into disarray final night time after officers launched the incorrect outcomes. The town’s board of elections says 135,000 check ballots have been by accident included within the rely for spherical two of the town’s rank selection vote tally. The preliminary announcement mirrored a really shut race within the Democratic main between Brooklyn borough President Eric Adams and former sanitation commissioner Catherine Garcia. However now there shall be a recount. This comes at a delicate time for the board of elections which has confronted accusations of incompetence up to now. Below New York Metropolis’s guidelines, it might be weeks earlier than the first’s winner is introduced. Oops. 

GAYLE KING: Think about being the one who found that mistake. 

TONY DOKOUPIL: We would like them to get it proper, not quick. 

As we speak
06/30/21
8:04 AM

31 seconds 

TOM LLAMAS: Now to a poll discrepancy creating confusion and frustration right here in New York Metropolis within the Democratic mayoral main.

[Ballot “Discrepancy” in NYC Mayoral Primary]

Yesterday, the Board of Elections launched new outcomes displaying a good race, however then simply hours later, the brand new numbers have been eliminated after officers discovered 135,000 check ballots have been by accident included within the tally. Now they’ll must recalculate a number of rounds of ranked-choice voting. That is the primary time the town is utilizing that system. We might not know the official winner till mid-July.