Voting May Be Vexing This November

The New York City Board of Elections has money to buy and install federally ordered, touch-screen devices for the handicapped; one to each polling site. That’s good. Unfortunately, they claim they don’t have the money to hire people to run the machines. That’s bad. City Hall officials disagree about there being a budget shortfall. Why it’s so difficult to know what’s in the treasury, to appropriate funds where necessary and to do this without a deadline around the corner amazes me. Disagree? Maybe we should vote on it.