When it comes to voting machines in New York, the farce continues.

Almost a month after a federal judge issued a crystal-clear order to state elections officials to have at least one disabled access machine in every polling place by the fall elections, the information for counties that must make the equipment choices has been changing by the day.

Last week, other courts got into the fray, as various companies and government officials battle over which machines will be on the menu of choices for county officials, which must be given some time to get machines ordered and delivered.

Then there's the training that will be needed for poll workers.

On Friday, the latest deadline counties were given to make choices, state elections officials added four machines to their list of acceptable machines.

They then told counties to make their final choices by Tuesday.

So even though it takes Albany six years to get to this point, they expect counties to make informed choices involving millions of dollars in roughly two business days.

Can this situation get any more disorganized or inefficient?

Prior to the January order, the federal judge presiding over the U.S. government's lawsuit against New York state threatened to throw the state elections board in jail for contempt if they didn't get their act together.

They managed to avoid that fate by getting a plan together for this coming fall, but it sure seems like no new progress has been made in the past few weeks.

Maybe the judge needs to make good on that earlier threat.

Remember the law that this whole situation revolves around. It's called the Help America Vote Act of 2002. Take note of the year.

It is a travesty it still may take throwing some Albany bureaucrats behind bars for this state to comply with the law.