New York’s Board of Elections is a travesty

New York’s Board of Elections keeps finding new definitions of the word “fail.”

The group that bought voting machines that didn’t work when it was too humid, that couldn’t keep track of its own technology, that disqualified more than 80,000 mail-in ballots in the 2020 primaries, admitted Tuesday that — surprise — they messed up the first calculation of ranked choice voting. The BOE released results that showed Eric Adams with a roughly 15,000 vote lead over Kathryn Garcia. But hold on: The total number of in-person votes was 140,000 more than on election day.