Primary Day in New York: Rain, Short Lines and a New Kind of Ballot
New York City voters used ranked-choice voting for the first time in a mayoral race on Tuesday, and many of them took it in stride.
New York City voters used a new ranked-choice system that allowed them to cast ballots for more than one candidate for the first time in a mayoral primary.Credit.Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times
June 22, 2021Updated 8:16 p.m. ET
Laura Benedek, 75, has not missed an election since she cast her first vote for Lyndon B. Johnson as president. Seated in her wheelchair on Tuesday, outside her polling place on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, she flaunted her “I Voted” sticker.