I see people whining because they cast their votes early and then changed their minds on some issues.

Republicans have been complaining about this lately: that early voters don't get "all the information," especially that late-breaking energy policy and diplomatic posture realignment stuff.... Basically, you can't come from behind if people make up their minds while you're still behind.

And I can see how that would be annoying to candidates. I can even see how I might be annoyed (if it were my candidate trying to come from behind).

But the bottom line is that there are too many people for us all to stand in line on voting day.

True, but with modern technology, we shouldn't have to. We run billions of dollars through distributed electronic systems every day, nearly error-free (unless the banking industry is hiding something about ATMs that I don't realize). There's no reason we couldn't create a system (or hijack the ATM networks!) allowing people to vote from almost anywhere at any time.

Me, I think we should switch to weekend voting, maybe noon Saturday to noon Sunday -- nobody's religious celebrations make voting impossible, there's hours and hours to count the votes on Sunday afternoon, and the "time tax" of lines would be less harmful when people have time off.

What? You don't think Election Day should be a national holiday - giving everyone the day off with pay to go vote?

(Neither do I. I know people--they'd take the day off and be traveling on vacation or never quite get around to going to the polls.)

Naturally I agree that we have more than enough technological expertise to create a reliable secure electronic voting system. It's a pity we don't do it.