The people most worried about the ExpressVote XL in New York point to what happened in Northampton County.
In 2019, voters there said the machine’s touchscreens were either too sensitive or not sensitive enough, so some candidates were hard to select, while in other cases, the wrong candidate was selected. Also, in the local judge’s race, an instructional box on the machine’s screen was read as a candidate in the system, so some votes went to the box instead of an actual person, according to Spotlight PA. Then, in 2023, the machine printed the wrong information on the paper ballot when people voted for a judicial candidate, though officials said the votes were correctly stored in the barcode.
In Philadelphia in 2020, poll staffers reported issues with the machines at more than 40% of polling locations, including hypersensitive touchscreens and printer jams, Reuters found.
In 2019, a coalition of election security groups filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania to decertify the use of the machines there. Four years later, the lawsuit settled with an agreement that counties using the machines would upgrade the software, the state would publish reports about malfunctions, and the public would get more opportunities to witness the state’s examination of voting systems.
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