The New York City Democratic primary elections on June 22 should have demonstrated the superiority of liberal election administration. Mail-in voting was widespread, with extremely generous deadlines for ballot arrival. In-person early voting was available. Photo identification for voters was unnecessary. And in 2019, the city added the trendiest new “solution” to “save democracy”: ranked-choice voting, with the financial help of liberal billionaires such as James and Kathryn Murdoch, Jonathan Soros, and Laura and John Arnold (through their Action Now Initiative).

But more than one week after the votes were cast, they had not been counted, and the city’s hegemonic Democratic Party did not know whom it had nominated for mayor.