New York City is already seeing that ranked-choice voting is a mess

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New York City, welcome to ranked-choice voting. It turns out that in the first major election in which the Big Apple used ranked-choice voting, there are already problems. The city’s Board of Elections accidentally counted 135,000 test ballots in the Democratic mayoral primary, skewing the results.

It’s not surprising, because ranked-choice voting is a confusing system and one with many problems beyond delayed election results and problems counting votes. The city should abandon the system as soon as possible.

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