Chris Christie will allow voters to submit votes by email or fax

[ashtonelijah]

As long as they are submitted by 8 pm Tuesday. How will this work? Hmm.

[Tennessee Gal]

1. How can they be verified? nt

[LisaL]

6. They have voter's name.

What else can they do? Obviously they still have not recovered, and a lot of people are not in their precinct to go vote.

[Tennessee Gal]

9. How can they verify the voter actually is the person who faxed or emailed the vote?

Having the name is not enough.

I would love to see this happen, but did not realize that technology had been developed to facilitate it at this point.

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. Link? (n/t)

[MadBadger]

3. Link

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/new-jersey-absentee-ballot-electronic-voting-hurricane-sandy-177112241.html

[Lefta Dissenter]

5. thanks! (n/t)

[LisaL]

4. Absentee.

Presumably because mail doesn't work.

[meadowlark5]

7. I would think they are running out of time for that

And if people are displaced and depending on where they are the ballots may not arrive on time.

[vilify]

8. Sounds crazy

Does anyone know how many people are affected by this? Meaning not able to access their precint.

[ShadowLiberal]

10. Aren't there HUGE security risks to voting online or by Fax?

Washington DC had a trial period for online voting, and invited hackers to try to hack into the system.

A Michigan college professor and 4 or 5 of his students successfully hacked into it, and tried to be REALLY obvious about it (such as making the website play their college's anthem after you submitted a vote), and it still took them two whole days to realize that they were hacked, and only when one of the test voters reported to them that it seemed odd the music that was playing after they submitted their vote.

The hackers even turned the security cameras around the servers hosting the online voting against them, and knew without even being contacted or Washington DC announcing it that they had discovered the hacking when they saw everyone running around looking really nervous, compared to being so calm and laid back before.

Bottom line, online voting has the same risks as electronic voting machines without paper trails, but worse.

[LisaL]

11. It's not really an on-line voting.

They will be e-mailed a ballot, fill it out and e-mail it back.
It normally is not a good idea, but this is an emergency.