Ranked-choice voting passed another big test in New York City. Around 800,000 New Yorkers voted in last week’s Democratic mayoral primary. Now as the final vote tallies come in, despite city officials’ mishandling of the vote tally, we can see that critics’ worst fears about this voting system were needless.

The city’s Board of Elections made an administrative goof during the count, which drew well-deserved blowback. But the apparent results of the election reveal that ranked-choice voting is a much more effective system than critics on the Right and the Left realize.