Voting in the Bronx, NY

Before the last mayoral election, (held after 9/11/2001) a ballot guide was printed and sent around across the City. Candidates' debates were carried by TV, one a major station with some of the major candidates, and the other, on a local cable news station, NY 1, held a debate with most of the candidates shown in the voter's guide. That debate was carried on radio also, which the current billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, declined to attend. The prior election had on the ballot a "medical marijuana" decriminalization candidate included in this election guide also. However, at the last mayoral election, nothing approaching the range of candidates in the voter's guide appeared in the voting booth. The primary was also held just after the events of 9/11/01. In fact, just before it, and 9/11/01, the candidates were rated (a "reality rating" using a check for "possible" or "impossible") on answers to issues recorded as spoken in response to questions from a reporter(s?) from WABC (?) in NYC. One of the questions was what to do with the World Trade Center, that, then (prior to 9/11/01) since it could be put up for sale, what would the candidate do with it or the proceeds from its sale? One sticking point, with one candidate, was that public housing, supposed to be built at the same time in the original agreements, never was "honored". When the election did come, it was as if some unknown "emergency powers" had been invoked in "City Hall". It is in "City Hall Park" where in the summer of 1999 I helped exhume and leave bodies, move water fountain, from the former "First Almshouse" and other burials (a prison next to it "blacker than any "'blackhole of Calcutta'" (NY Times 1903) a British prison, run during the American Revolution by a Major Cunningham, where patriot Ethan Allen was tortured, next to City Hall Park on the "Brooklyn side". It would be near where the automatic pay toilet once stood, near Chambers Street corner) The current "restoration" which includes large remotely operated granite bollards to control vehicular access to the park, found a number of animal and human burial remains, once the edge of the "Commons" or "Green" now part of the African Burial Ground (a block away) and Commons Historic District. In hindsight, certain strange powers seemed to be in force before 9/11/01 too. Long Island Helicopters, which I used to work next to, then for UPS furniture delivery, the helicopters at a former bowling alley in Roosevelt Field, (where Lindbergh left for Paris) out on Long Island, (covered flights for the 1974 Watkins Glen Music Festival), were "waved off" Manhattan, so to speak, by the former mayor it seems. So when I went to vote, the same old machine still wasn't working right, the curtain did not move to signify that my vote had been cast. They used to open and close for each voter. This one, after at least 3 Presidential elections, and in three different places (two Catholic schools, one public) is still "broken". There ought to be a law! All people with broken machines should go to a judge, as permitted by law when they're not sure that their vote was counted (10's of thousands hadn't been, which is another story about the "switches" in the machines) and let's see how backed up a court can be!