New York City elections officials will try again Wednesday to report preliminary results of the Democratic mayoral primary after a first attempt went disastrously wrong.
The mayor’s race, the first city election to use ranked choice voting, was thrown into chaos after the city’s Board of Elections posted incorrect preliminary vote counts in the Democratic primary and then withdrew them.
Critics said the mistake Tuesday by the city’s Board of Elections, which released a statement saying that 135,000 ballot images that were in its computer system for testing purposes had never been cleared, proved that the board was not equipped to handle the new ranked choice system.
