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?