With all the talk of stealing the election and the missing electronic ballots, I have been wondering if it would be possible to circumvent the system by using absentee ballots. Each voter could request an absentee ballot and return it via certified mail. That would give them a "receipt" for it. If large numbers of Democrats did this, they would have a large number of essentially insured votes. The election boards could claim that the ballots were missing, but each voter would have proof they voted.
Yes, I am aware that this sort of thing would be a nightmare to organize. I was reading the US News (I think it was US News) special report on the success of the Kerry campaign. Apparently, the party bosses in Iowa use absentee ballots as part of their GOTV efforts. But the rules are different in different states.
Besides the obvious problem of logistics, could this sort of thing work?