Voting via e-mail leads to problems in US

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The decision at the last moment to vote via e-mail to assist in the hurricane Sandy affected New Jersey has the unfortunate situations led. Mailboxes where the e-mails sent to you should be proved to full, not accessible, or unsafe.

This past weekend decided the state of New Jersey to cast votes via e-mail. Normally, the only Americans abroad are eligible for this, but now were also residents of the state of New Jersey by the hurricane is no longer in their own home stayed their voice mail. Security experts had compared to Ars Technica, we know this is not a good idea to find.

Indeed, led to the possibility of re and of to problems, describes again Ars Technica. As reported, residents of Essex County that the request to via e-mail to vote for no more arrived and that they have the message that the mailbox of the secretary of the district was full. The secretary let then know that the applications are also to a hotmail address could be, but a beveiligingsexpert found for ‘password recovery’ at this address, the maiden name of the mother of the secretary was sufficient.

Residents of district Morris County were faced with the problem that emails are not arriving and others were given simply no answer to their request, while also phone lines too busy bleaching. The time to prepare for the large number of voters that have resorted to e-mail took, had been too short for the system flawlessly to make it work.