Katz won by just 55 votes.
after paper ballots were counted in the pivotal Queens, New York, district attorney race. The razor-thin margin and a dispute over 114 disqualified affidavit ballots have triggered a full manual recount of the roughly 91,000 total ballots cast on June 25, which is set to start on Tuesday. Lawyers for both candidates will also appear in court Tuesday to battle it out over the disqualified ballots.
If Cabán officially wins the primary, it all but guarantees that she will be the next DA of Queens, the 11th-most populous county in the U.S. If elected, Cabán will be the first female, Latinx, openly queer, and youngest person to ever hold the position. And she says she is ready to overhaul the criminal justice system.
"They said I was too young, they said I didn’t look like a district attorney, they said we couldn’t build a movement from the grassroots, they said we could not win — but we did it, y’all," CabánAdvertisement
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