Confusion reigns after New York City tries to release first ranked-choice tally in Democratic mayoral primary

New York City's Democratic mayoral primary is facing major questions Tuesday night after the city's Board of Elections acknowledged a "discrepancy" in unofficial ranked-choice voting results that had been released earlier in the day. The board said in a statement late Tuesday that it accidentally included thousands of test ballots in the results. 

The chaos started when the tabulations released Tuesday afternoon showed about 940,000 in-person votes were cast, a major jump from the 800,000 that were reported on June 22. The city's results from primary  night suggested that 96% of the in-person votes had been counted.  The unofficial and incomplete results that were released earlier Tuesday showed ranked-choice voting tabulations from votes cast on primary day and during early in-person voting. They did not include approximately 125,000 absentee ballots.