Looks like the mail-in primary idea is not going to work:
Do-over primary getting lost in the mail – 03/13/2008 – MiamiHerald.com
Florida law prohibits election officials from authenticating votes cast in the Democratic Party’s proposed do-over primary by mail, state officials said Thursday, a potentially fatal blow to the increasingly embattled plan.”There’s no authority under Florida law that would allow county supervisors of election or the state to verify signatures in an election of a state party,” said Sterling Ivey, a spokesman for Florida’s secretary of state and Division of Elections.
Verifying the identity of anyone who votes by mail — either through a conventional absentee ballot or in the Florida Democrats’ proposed and unprecedented statewide mailed election — is considered a key bulwark against electoral fraud.
In addition, the plan floated Wednesday by state party chief Karen Thurman lacked a key requirement to protect the anonymity of voters — an inner ”secrecy envelope,” though aides said Thursday that the envelope would be included if the proposal gains momentum.
