Letters to the Editor
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A voting technique
Michigan and Florida could hold a vote; A two-day unassembled caucus, with absentee mail-in voting.
Calling the technique a "caucus" is a misnomer. It would be a party run primary. Here is how to do it: Designate as many sites as necessary. Call for would be participants to show up at any hour from, say, 7 am to 9 pm on Saturday or Sunday. Maybe Friday night also. The voter shows his driver's license, fills out a form stating his/her name, address, tel# (optional), age (exact or 18 or older by Nov 8 (or is it 7?) and anyhing else the Mi/FL State Democratic Committee wants to get, require the voter to sign a pledge to vote for the Democratic nominee (unenforceable) and mark a ballot -- Clinton or Obama.
Absentees: Letter or fax. Email would probably be too easy to cheat massively. Make the letter or fax be handwritten. In cases where the voter is a long way away, require that there be a local contact that can be called to vouch for the voter.
Note that the idea is to force any cheating to be done retail as much as possible.
For the life of me, I can't see how it would cost much. Draw up the ballots, etc, on a word processer.
Polling places: Whoever would donate space. Maybe take your chances and have some caucus locations be in parking lots, with voting in tents if necessary.
It would be a great party builder. My city had to come up with a nominee for an umticipated city council seat. We had an unassebled caucus from 2 pm to 9 pm on a Saturday afternoon in June. It worked great.