4 takeaways from New York City s attempt to use ranked-choice voting to pick its next crop of politicians insider@insider.com (Jake Lahut,Walt Hickey) © TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images New York City Democratic Mayoral Candidate Eric Adams. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images
This past June, New York City became the largest city to use ranked choice voting.
The Board of Elections messed up on messaging and tabulation, but in the end the system worked.
While the mayor race was a fiasco, ranked choice was huge for contentious city council races.
Ranked-choice voting worked as intended, but its New York City debut didn t go off without a few hitches.
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