So, at the caucus site I managed, at least one person referred to us as the "Dumb-ocrats." I am pretty confident now that they were among the 76,000 - and the commentary was aimed at caucus organizers, not party members themselves...

     The Supreme Court couldn't have gotten the chance to give Bush the presidency if a Democratic elections clerk in
Florida hadn't screwed up and created the "butterfly ballot".

I was one of those people who tried to vote and failed. I couldnt even log on after they sent me my login and password. I tried to call the number they had for help and was told that the account was probably locked out and there was nothing they could do about it. I ended up having to go vote at my local caucus site.

The New Democratic Party of Canada used internet voting to choose a federal leader, and I never heard anything about people having trouble. We logged on with a code we received in the mail. I'm not sure what system they used, but it seems to at least be a possibility.

I managed to vote online -- I wanted to out of curiousity more than anything else -- but it was quite a hassle. I also wonder about the relatively weak security involved in mailing most of the data needed to vote online (user name and pass phrase) right to the voter. Convenient? Sure, hypothetically. Secure? Maybe about as much as a credit card, which is to say, not much.

I'm not sure -- maybe somebody can clarify. Grebner's note makes it sound like only 2 in 5 absentee voters managed to vote online. Does that include or exclude voters who mailed in their ballots?

Good grid. Is anyone really surprised?

I did manage to vote online for the caucus, but I had to run IE to do it. And once there, it was really non-intuitive. I was underwhelmed with the whole thing.

Being born at [St. Joseph's|St. Joe's] in [Mount|Mt.|MT|Mt|Mnt|Mnt.] [Clemens|CLEMENS], [MI|Michigan|Mich.], I can definitely appreciate the difficulties of shit-based authentication. Man, they should hired me and/or a team of slightly-trained monkeys to create the online voting system. Bah..

Hah. I'm going to mount my USB keychain drive at /mnt/clemens. Hah Hah Hah.

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I managed to vote in Safari, the littlest major browser, and wrote up my experiences at http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/powe...mocratic_caucus.php

I did hear from more than one person who was stopped from voting, but that was because they weren't aware that you had to pre-register to Internet vote.

I tried to vote online and couldn't because of the place of birth thing. I called and learned they had a three-strike lockout rule too. So I hopped in my car and drove to Forsythe and voted there with the throngs.