With President Donald Trump threatening to flood their communities with federal troops and immigration police, and the Democratic Party struggling in the national polls, voters in major U.S. cities head to the polls today to choose between establishment Democrats and progressives focused on affordability and upending the status quo. Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's campaign for mayor of New York City has garnered the most attention, both from national media and from Trump.
While early voting for the next mayor doesn't start until Oct. 25, New Yorkers who vote by mail are already receiving their ballots and every one those ballots is flawed and every ballot to be used in early voting and on Election Day is flawed due to the bumbling and stumbling by the partisan-hack-by-design city Board of Elections. There are two problems which are apparent in looking at the ballots.