Commentary Despite confusion over the botched ranked-choice results in New York City, tallies thus far demonstrate one thing clearly: a blatant disconnect between utopian theorists and those who live at the mercy of their naive policy. In their attempt to revolutionize the voting system by introducing a ranked vote, New York City’s Board of Elections succeeded in creating an alternative so convoluted that it even required a practice ballot for voters. After first choice votes were tallied in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, Eric Adams assumed a considerable lead. The subsequent release of second-round voting data, however, suggested Adams’s lead was shrinking. But earlier this week, the Board of Elections was forced to retract this data. A typical failure of the city’s bloated and incompetent bureaucracy, the Board apparently neglected to remove fake ballots that had been used to test the new system. As they say, if …