Montana’s electronic absentee voting system hit a snag just as overseas voters were gearing up to cast their ballots in the upcoming federal election. According to Daily Inter Lake, the ...

The Electronic Absentee System allows eligible voters to cast their ballot online beginning 45 days before the federal election, which for the general Election Day on Nov. 5, was Friday, Sept. 20.

Partial passwords to some parts of the state's voting systems that were accidentally posted online pose no threat to Nov. 5 general election, the Colorado Department of State said on Tuesday.

The online voting system could jeopardize voter privacy and allow votes to be altered, the experts said. SERVE is part of the U.S. Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP).

For months, the agency “improperly” hosted a publicly available spreadsheet on its website that included a hidden tab with partial passwords for its voting machines.

Then, when electronic voting was introduced, it required a similarly secure online system that, while it has some flaws, still works to allow owners a good amount of security in casting their votes.

“There's no need to panic,” an elections expert tells NPR. All but three states have free tracking sites that send updates to voters as their ballot goes through the system.