When New York City voters fill out ballots for Mayor on Tuesday they will rank up to five candidates by preference. If no candidate is the first choice of a majority of voters, this “ranked-choice” voting system will knock out 10 lower-placed candidates until only one is left with more than 50 percent support.

The system may produce a bizarre result. Betting markets give socialist Zohran Mamdani a one-in-three chance of winning because many voters may refuse to rank scandal-tarred front-runner Andrew Cuomo at all.

There are other problems. New York election officials will post initial results from the first round of voting late on Election Night. But preliminary elimination rounds won’t be released until a week later because late mail-in and provisional ballots must first be processed.

We can then expect WEEKLY updates, as more elimination rounds are held.

Election Day could become election month in New York with all the vote-buying and other shenanigans associated with such a drawn out process.

New York may prove our point that rank choice voting leads to electoral chaos.