There are 3.7 million registered Democrats in New York City. Yet only 800,000 New Yorkers -- 22% of _registered_ voters -- bothered to vote for the next mayor. This is not a sign of a healthy democracy. (And Adam's margin of victory seems to be less than 8,500 votes.)
Actually... more than 800,000 people voted! This (below) would indicate that 800,000 people ranked either Adams OR Garcia. Presumably many voters ranked neither. (Though whatever that number, the total is still a small fraction of 3.7 million registered Democrats). 
937,699 ballots were cast for mayor.
73,979 ballots became "inactive" after Wiley was nixed (neither Adams nor Garcia listed in any of the 5 ranks). Realistically this means many of these Wiley voters didn't list 5 choices. A shame, cause I suspect many more than 9,000 of them would have voted for Garcia over Adams.
By comparison 39,121 votes became inactive when Yang was eliminated. (Which is lesser number, but an equal % of votes. And particularly odd, since Yang endorsed Garcia.
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