If you were looking for a better way to sow more distrust in elections, you wouldn’t have to look further than New York City and its new ranked-choice voting system.

If you were looking for a similar mess to the 2020 Democratic Iowa Caucus, ranked-choice voting is for you. It helps that New York City is ridiculously incompetent when it comes to elections, to be sure, as evidenced by how slow the city was in counting votes in 2020. Inexplicably, the New York City Board of Elections counted over 130,000 sample ballots as votes in its mayoral contest and had to remove the voting results from its website.