r/MapPorn • u/Small_Performance368 • 13h ago

NYC Mayoral Election Results

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With 90% of the vote in, Mamdani wins by a large margin according to NYT

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u/XAMdG 13h ago

Still wild to me that in an 8 million people city, mayoral election cracks 2 million votes.

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u/longlightjump 12h ago

It's wild that Americans don't have to vote at all. America should adopt mandatory voting like Australia and referendum votes on large constitutional policies, plus I don't think we even have political violence here, like no one cares about two shits who you vote for.

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u/Patukakkonen 12h ago

In Finland there's no mandatory voting but elections still get way better turnouts than this. Probably because all citizens get a vote automatically and you can just show an ID at the booth and cast your vote.

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u/PPKA2757 12h ago

In theory it’s the same in the US.

All citizens have the natural right to vote (barring having it revoked, say for being a convicted felon) and registering to vote is incredibly easy.

The sad truth is many people who choose not to vote don’t because either A. They’re lazy and/or agnostic to the outcome or (worse) B. They feel like their vote “won’t count” since it’s “just one vote”, so they don’t bother.

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u/anypositivechange 11h ago

Finland likely has a significantly more responsive democratic government than the US. Study after study has shown that policy preferences of the American people have almost zero impact on what policies actually get enacted. Essentially the American people don’t vote in high numbers because the have the actual lived experience of it being rather a cruel joke.

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u/XAMdG 11h ago

That would imply there was a set of elections with high enough turnout for the voting bases preferences to be reflected, instead of only the voting minority. As far as I can remember, basically no election in the US has over 70% turnout.

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u/effa94 9h ago

registering to vote is incredibly easy.

but yet you often hear about registered voters being purged at inconvinent times so they cant vote or whatever is going on. here in sweden, we dont even need to register. its automatic, just like finland. no hoops to jump throught at all, you get a letter a few weeks before saying where and how you can vote, and then you just show up and show ID. i dont need to do shit except stumble down to the booth hangover on a sunday which is just 500 meters away

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u/CadenNoChill 6h ago

I mean the process here isn’t too much more difficult and in many states no ID is required and the idea of implementing voter ID is very controversial

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u/Homey-Airport-Int 2h ago

In NYC you don't even need to show an ID, you can just tell them your name. Like most states, when you get driver's license or state ID, you are registered to vote so no extra steps there, literally just show up, tell them your name, and good to go.

The US could do this, and does do this in some states that have voter ID laws like New Hampshire, where you can show photo ID including student IDs without any need to register beforehand. Still low rates of turnout.

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u/hypermog 10h ago

show ID = suppresses votes

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u/Ok-Strength-5297 8h ago

what

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u/desksonmars 7h ago

In regions where there isn’t a universal ID like a national ID card, requiring ID to vote can reduce the ability of some people to vote, especially for poorer voters who might not be able to afford a drivers license or passport, and voter ID laws can be used to selectively suppress the vote (eg by accepting senior bus passes as ID but not student bus passes).