What comes next in the New York City mayor’s race?

First, write-in votes are allocated, with most of them moving to the “exhausted” pile — meaning ballots for which there are no more viable candidates. (If you wrote in “Mickey Mouse” and nothing else, your ballot is no longer useful for ranked-choice counting, given that Mickey Mouse, sadly, is not viable.) Then the lowest vote-getter, Aaron Foldenauer, is removed, with his 9,400 votes being reallocated. Then, the votes for Paperboy Love Prince. Then, Isaac Wright Jr.