[EL] New Jersey to allow vote-by-email

[joehall]

Penn's Matt Blaze (CS) has a thoughtful post on the NJ email balloting here:

http://www.crypto.com/blog/njvoting/

Many technical types are torn... for example, I myself recognize that email/fax voting should be used as a last resort as they are so fundamentally not secure. But this certainly seems like the kind of situation that would require such a measure. Still, electronic delivery of voted ballot materials makes me very nervous...

I was hoping a UPS or FedEx or DHL would subsidize or donate the costs of next-day delivery of paper ballots that had been emailed to displaced voters, printed and filled out. This is what groups like the Overseas Voter Foundation have worked out with FedEx for UOCAVA voters, and it seems smart to extend that to displaced voters.

best, Joe

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
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Center for Democracy & Technology
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On Nov 3, 2012, at 18:48, Derek Muller <derek.muller at gmail.com> wrote:

> First report I saw here: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/new-jersey-absentee-ballot-electronic-voting-hurricane-sandy-177112241.html
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> I imagine that the only thing worse than email voting is a last-minute proposal for voting by email....
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