| This is an issue with the NYC Board of Elections, not with RCV. Plenty of other jurisdictions already use RCV with no issue. Unlike in every other jurisdiction in the country, the NYC Board of Elections is not an independent agency and is not accountable to elected officials. It's run by party leaders who nominate their own allies (oftentimes family), with disastrous consequences[0]. It's been criticized for years, but eliminating it would require passing legislation at the state level, and for various political reasons, that's an uphill battle. This might be the latest bungle, but it's not the first. In fact, it happens almost every single election cycle in NYC. - In November 2020, many voters actually received absentee ballots that were addressed to the wrong people: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/nyregion/absentee-ballot-... - In July 2020, 20% of absentee ballots were rejected, which is a staggeringly high number https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/one-five-mail-bal... - In 2019, the Board of Elections failed to meet state requirements to provide books of voter rolls to candidates, so instead they published the full voting records online, complete with the unredacted name, address, and party affiliation of every registered voter in the city, available for bulk download. After backlash, they took the information down.[1] - In 2016, there were mass purges of eligible voters from voting rolls, in violation of both state and federal laws, which prevented voters from casting ballots in the 2016 primaries[2]. This resulted in a federal lawsuit[3], resulting in a settlement in which the Board of Elections actually admitted that it knowingly violated state and federal laws (unlike settlements where parties formally admit no wrongdoing)[4]. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/nyc-voting-elect... [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/nyregion/nyc-personal-vot... [2] https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/campaigns-e... [3] https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2017/ag-schneiderman-moves-i... [4] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/new-york-city-boa... |