People joke that you can accomplish or acquire all the necessities of life through online interaction - food, love, clothing, material goods, spiritual revelation, and plain old intellectual curiosity all seem to have created digital niches. Some of these seem a bit redundant, like ordering pizza via the Internet rather than walking over to the telephone to make a call. Others are wonderful time savers, like ordering groceries and setting up pre-determined delivery times. Now, yet one more mundane but vital requirement of American life is being ported over to the Internet - voting. (more…)