Are New York officials trying to help Mamdani on the ballot?

You don’t necessarily have to rig an election to rig it, if that makes sense.

Zohran Mamdani appears to have a walkover win lined up for November, but it does appear that city officials are not taking any chances.

The ballots have been designed, and the main competition for Mamdani is buried, with people less likely to look for those names, giving Mamdani an even bigger edge.

Drop Out

Trump tried to put his thumb on this race, but it did not work.

There was a so-called deadline floated, and it was, oddly enough, just before the ballot design was going to be released, with Trump stating that he wanted to see two candidates drop out to make this a head-to-head race.

Trump stated, “I don’t think you can win unless you have one-on-one, because somehow he’s gotten a little bit of a lead.

“I would like to see two people drop out and have it be one-on-one. I think that’s a race that could be won.”

Big Win

Needless to say, two candidates did not drop out, and we are now all but assured that Mayor Eric Adams, Curtis Sliwa (the GOP candidate), and Andrew Cuomo will remain in the race, as will several other candidates, which I will get to in just a second.

With a full field, Mandani is polling with a 21% lead, and it is not much worse when he goes heads up.

Cuomo gets it close to single digits if he can take on Mamdani by himself, but that is still a considerable lead with time running out.

Marist Poll Director Lee Miringoff explained, "Mamdani’s coalition, which was evident in the primary, remains intact. He does very well among young voters and among progressive, liberal voters, and his name recognition is generally positive."

Bury Them

Unfortunately, the ballots are not printed in order of popularity, and the November ballot will not feature Adams or Cuomo until they pan way down.

In the ballot sample that I saw, Mamdani and Sliwa were the first two options, as they are running with the major parties. The third candidate was Irene Estrada, who is running under a third-party, but has generated virtually no interest.

Now, this is where it gets really interesting. Mandani and Sliwa are listed again under different parties, then Adams, followed by Jim Walden, Andrew Cuomo, and Joseph Hernandez.

Technically, there is nothing shady going on here, but the fact that two candidates are listed twice before Adams and Cuomo is laughable. The city’s Board of Elections says the ballot follows state law, so I would love to know how anyone can take up two different lines before another candidate is listed. You can justify putting them at numbers four and five, but six and eight seem like rigging the election without actually rigging the election. So, my friends, get ready for a hardline socialist to be handed the keys to New York City because the GOP failed to take this race seriously from the outset. For instance, you put someone like Lee Zeldin on that ticket, and tell me we don’t have a serious race.