New Jersey's last-minute offer of email voting to displaced residents was greeted by concern by security experts, who warn that email offers a fast track to voter fraud.
But the system may have another problem as well: County election administrators are, according to anecdotal reports, simply not responding to all requests for ballots. In two major counties, the email address advertised on the website of the county clerk is not even accepting email.
The email address listed on the website of the Morris County Clerrk, asmith@co.morris.nj.us, is not receiving email. Nor is the email, info@essexclerk.com, listed on the website of the Essex County Clerk, info@essexclerk.com and the County's site. (The Essex County Clerk posted to his Facebook page Monday that voters could email requests to his personal Hotmail account.

Essex County, which includes Newark, is the state's third-largest. Morris County, with nearly 500,000 residents in largely prosperous suburbs of New York City, is the 10th largest.
Jason Tanz, a Wired Magazine editor who lives in Essex County, told BuzzFeed he filled out a ballot application, set it to the clerk — and received no response. He called twice and emailed, he said, — only to find that the email address was bouncing.