The battle over the Queens district attorney race between Tiffany Cabán and Melinda Katz is still going on, even after the completion of a manual recount
Photo: Caban for Queens The battle over the outcome of last month’s highly publicized Queens district attorney race between Tiffany Cabán and Melinda Katz is waging on.
As the movement behind Cabán, which included community organizers, members of the Democratic Socialists of America, advocates for sex-workers’ rights, and criminal-justice reformers, declared victory, with their candidate ahead by 1,100 votes, the moment was compared to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning congressional primary win against Joe Crowley — until Katz quietly pulled ahead by just 20 votes, as last-minute affidavit and absentee ballots were counted.
“Now that every valid vote has been counted and recounted, the results confirm once again that the people of Queens have chosen Melinda Katz as the Democratic nominee for District Attorney,” spokesperson Andrew Kirtzman said in a statement. But Gothamist reports that Cabán’s lawyer, Jerry Goldfeder, plans to contest “dozens” of individual ballots. “People who didn’t fill out their ballots absolutely precisely correctly, their votes were invalidated erroneously,” Goldfeder said.
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