Nah, that would make too much sense

Bill Bradbury, Oregon's Secretary of State, has an op-ed piece in the WaPo today: Vote-by-Mail: The Real Winner Is Democracy

Frankly, after having utilized a mail-in absentee ballot this year, I have to agree that a vote-by-mail system would be far superior to the nonsense that we suffered through this year in places like Ohio where some, mostly in minority precincts, had to wait in line for hours to vote on machines for which there was no paper audit trail.

In the article, he sites the reduced cost and improved supervision of the counting process as reasons to adopt the system nation-wide.

Without polling places, vote-by-mail eliminates the expensive and time-consuming recruitment and training of poll workers. As a result, the cost of a vote-by-mail election is nearly 30 percent less than the cost of a polling place election.

Centralized supervision and control of ballot processing by elections officials in county elections offices, instead of dispersed polling places, maintains uniformity and strict compliance with law throughout the state.

An impressive percentage of Oregon's registered voters cast ballots in this election. Each of those voters can be confident that the mechanism of democracy in Oregon suits their needs, runs smoothly and fairly, and, most importantly, protects their votes.

The answer to the nation's voting anxiety is not a national standard that imposes new rules on an outdated system of polling places. The answer is a low-tech, low-cost, reliable and convenient system that makes it easier to vote and easier to count votes. The answer is vote-by-mail.

An improvement would be along the lines of what airlines and movie theaters are trending towards; printing the ballots off the internet which would save on printing and postage costs. An even further improvement might be to provide forms-based voting online where the UI facilitates the selection process, verifies the voters intent, and then allows the finished ballot to be sent to the printer and subsequently mailed by the voter.

Certainly, we can and should do better than what we have today.