Calls grow for NYC elections board overhaul after botched vote count

Anger mounted against the Board of Elections on Wednesday after the agency botched the initial tallies under the Big Apple’s new ranked-choice voting system — because employees failed to clear out ballots from a test run and no one caught the error.

“Yet again, the fundamental structural flaws of the Board of Elections are on display,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio, who once offered the agency $20 million in 2016 to pay for reforms, only to be rebuffed by the political party bosses who control it under the state’s constitution. “There must be an immediate, complete re-canvass of the BOE’s vote count and a clear explanation of what went wrong,” de Blasio added. “The record number of voters who turned out this election deserve nothing less.”