<p>In an effort to accommodate voters displaced by Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey decided to allow voters this year to request ballots by e-mail and submit them via e-mail and fax.</p><p>But that solution has turned out to be a disaster after e-mail servers used to send and receive election ballots in at least two major counties got clogged or crashed on Tuesday under the weight of voter traffic.</p><p>At least one official in Essex County, which has 451,000 registered voters, decided to solve the problem by inviting voters to send their ballot request to his personal Hotmail e-mail address.</p><p>"Per Essex County Clerk Christopher J. Durkin: Displaced voters can email a request for a ballot at cj_durkin@hotmail.com," according to a post on the Facebook page for West Orange, NJ.</p><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/new-jersey-email-fai/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-blog/2012-11-06-new-jersey-election-official-uses-hotmail-to-collect-voter-ballots/">New Jersey Election Official Uses Hotmail to Collect Voter Ballots</a> (Bloomberg (blog))</p><p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/e-voting-chaos-nj-voters-sent-to-officials-personal-hotmail-address/">E-voting chaos: NJ voters sent to official's personal Hotmail address</a> (Ars Technica)</p><p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/11/06/despite-security-fixes-new-cracks-appear-in-new-jerseys-last-minute-email-voting-scheme/">Despite Security Fixes, New Cracks Appear In New Jersey's Last-Minute Email ...</a> (Forbes)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dHTuKwYRxJ3g0cM9fPy5ceQ7SYtIM&ned=us">16 additional articles.</a></p>