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Subscribe to RSSOfficials predict voter turnout will take a hit in the Northeast as residents deal with the lingering problems from Sandy. William Biamonte, an elections commissioner for Nassau County, New York joins a special edition of NewsNation to discuss.
New Jersey election officials said Saturday that registered voters displaced by Hurricane Sandy will be able to vote by email -- an electronic process used by state residents who are overseas and service members, but a first for voters living in the state, NBCNewYork.com reported.
The directive is intended to help first responders kept away from home and their local polling places as well as those displaced by the storm.
More post-storm coverage at NBCNewYork.com
Election officials said they will also accept paper ballots through Monday, Nov. 19, as long as they're postmarked by Nov. 6, NBCNewYork.com reported.
"To help alleviate pressure on polling places, we encourage voters to either use electronic voting or the extended hours at county offices to cast their vote,” said Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno.
Gov. Chris Christie said Friday that his administration is making sure residents can vote, even if their polling stations are without power or no longer exist. The state also will allow residents to drop by their county clerk's office to vote. A specially created text number will allow a voter to see if his or her polling place is still open.
NBCNewYork.com described the email voting system:
Essex County Clerk Chris Durkin told NBC 4 New York the program is being run on an honor system, relying on voters to only use the system if they truly can't get to his or her polling place.
The procedure, according to Durkin, will be to call or email the county clerk to get a ballot application emailed to you.
Once filled out, you email it back, then get the ballot itself emailed to you.
Durkin said you fill the ballot out and email it back, where it will be printed, held several days and cross checked to make sure you didn't vote some other way.
Since officials couldn't figure out a way to confirm a voters name and print the completed ballot witout an election worker looking the voters' choices while handling the ballots, voters will have to check off a waiver of privacy.
It's going to be a long road ahead for millions of families in New York and New Jersey. Morning Joe takes a look back at the week that was Hurricance Sandy.
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Sorry to report there appears no way to actually do what they are claiming. The Essex County Clerk has no email listed (that's how you're supposed to apply). They don't answer their phones (just voicemail message) and their fax is permanently busy. My sister lives in Montclair but has now power or heat so came to RI to stay with me. She's trying desperately to vote, but none of their promised ways actually work.
Let me get this straight. A Voter who has no home, probably lost any computer they may or may not have had, in an area that has probably lost internet access, without power to use a computer, without fuel to get to a working computer ... they get to "vote" using a method that corrupts the entire voting process and this is supposed to make sense? Sorry but it makes more sense to mobilise the military and armies of volunteers to go into the strictened area and guarantee the voting access and voter legitimacy. To NOT do it that way throws the entire vote casting process in doubt. By the way, has anyone heard anything further on the "electronic voting" designed that was supposed to have the process monitored and tallied by ignorant 3rd world outsource locations? Gee that sounds secure! Kind of like the logic that has states unemployment checks and records done by ignorant 3rd world outsource locations instead of using the unemployed?
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