A sample printed ballot from an ExpressVote machine is displayed during a 2019 demonstration in Texas.

Why has the New York state Board of Elections allowed the use of voting machines that some watchdog groups and people on both sides of the political aisle don’t trust?

It’s both puzzling and troubling. So, too, is the decision by various counties around the state to buy them even with legislation and litigation over them still pending.

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As the Times Union’s Emily Munson reports, the ExpressVote XL machines have been used in a small number of elections around the state in recent months, following their approval by the state board in 2023. They were used in a special Town Board election in Suffolk County and in village and school board elections in Monroe County. The school board elections drew some 32,000 voters.

A host of other........

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