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New Jersey to Allow Voting by Email (and Fax) for Residents Displaced by Superstorm Sandy

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Voters who opt for an electronic ballot must email or fax an application to their county clerk (contact info here) who will then determine whether the person qualifies for the provision.If so,the clerk will send the voter two items: an electronic ballot and a "waiver of secrecy form."The waiver will enable officials to print the ballot and confirm the sender,a loss of privacy made palatable by the gains in access to voting this temporary measure extends.All applications for electronic ballots must be received by 5 pm and all ballots themselves must be submitted by 8 pm.(and don't forget the attachment!).Though there are many questions about the security and reliability of this Band-Aid process,it's an admirable undertaking for a state as beleaguered as NJ is right now.This may be one of the few times NJ officials, voters, and anyone who believes that all votes should count equally...

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)