View Comments The city is using ranked choice voting for the first time, which allows voters to select up to top five candidates. The Board of Elections has said full results are not expected until later in July. But the additional 135,000 'test' ballots accidentally included in a round of results are raising wider concerns about how the board handles elections. NEW YORK — "Foolishness." "Unfortunate." "Generations of failures." New York City's Board of Election is facing widespread criticism after it mistakenly included some 135,000 "test" ballots in partial results released Tuesday in its tightly-contested mayoral election. The three-way contest — between Brooklyn borough President Eric Adams; Maya Wiley, former counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio; and Kathryn Garcia, former Department of Sanitation head — has been upended with a murky picture of who is ahead after the election board's botched release and scores of mail-in votes remain to be counted.