Remember the sales pitch for ranked choice voting? Sure, it’s more complicated, excludes voters, and delays results. But it’ll be worth it because ranked choice voting is supposed to help moderate, consensus candidates. So much for that.

Marxist extremist Zohran Mamdani is now the Democrat nominee for New York City mayor, with 43.5 percent of the vote. Well, sort of. Mamdani was ranked first by about 432,305 voters from among 1,026,783 who cast a ballot in the Democrat’s primary. Following ranked-choice voting retabulations, Mamdani’s share of the vote went up to 56% out of only 973,864 voters, producing the mirage of a Mamdani majority.

This is ranked choice voting’s new math. A normal election is simple addition: one vote, plus one vote, and so on until it’s done. With ranked choice voting, there are multiple rounds of addition—and subtraction. (RELATED: How NYC’s Little-Understood Voting System Could Lead To A Socialist Mayor)

Ranked choice voting tabulation starts by eliminating the least popular candidate, which really means eliminating the votes (first-place rankings) for that candidate. If affected voters ranked other candidates, their votes are shifted to their second-place rankings, and this repeats until a winner clinches a “majority.” But here is the kicker: along the way, if voters run out of rankings before the final round of tabulation, their ballots are eliminated from the final results. It’s as if those people never voted—all to make it appear that the winner has majority support. Their votes simply disappear from the final results.

With ranked choice voting, your right to vote does........

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