The whole world got a chance to see on Tuesday what New York City residents already knew: The citys Board of Elections is dysfunctional.

New York states Constitution requires local election authorities to be run by political appointees from both major political parties.

That means that the county-level Democratic and Republican parties in each county in the state appoint an equal number of people to lead and manage local election authorities.

Virtually every other state in the country has independent, nonpartisan technocrats run their elections.

The result, in New York state in general, and New York City in particular, has been chronic mismanagement and a series of embarrassing scandals that culminated in Tuesdays revelation of incorrect results. The NYC Board of Elections accidentally published preliminary ranked-choice voting results for the Democratic mayoral primary that included 135,000 test ballots, rescinded them , and posted new ones on Wednesday.

Theres a fundamental problem having partisan boards of elections, said Jerry Goldfeder, a Democratic elections attorney. An independent, professional operation would serve the people of New York much better.