After six weeks of delays and fights over disputed ballots,
New York City Council member Ritchie Torres and U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney have been certified as the winners of
Democratic congressional primaries in New York City.
Vote tabulation in the June 23 primary stretched out over half the summer because of a record number of people who cast ballots by mail because of the
Coronavirus pandemic.
If he wins in the general
election in November, Torres, who is Black and Latino, is likely to join Mondaire Jones, a lawyer who won the Democratic primary for a congressional seat in the suburbs north of
New York City, as the first openly gay Black or Latino men in
Congress.