Primary Day in New York: Rain, Short Lines and a New Kind of Ballot New York City voters used ranked-choice voting for the first time in a mayoral race on Tuesday, and many of them took it in stride. New York City voters used a new ranked-choice system that allowed them to cast ballots for more than one candidate for the first time in a mayoral primary.Credit...Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times June 22, 2021Updated 8:16 p.m. ET Laura Benedek, 75, has not missed an election since she cast her first vote — for Lyndon B. Johnson as president. Seated in her wheelchair on Tuesday, outside her polling place on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, she flaunted her “I Voted” sticker.