Another trudge-to-your-polling-place primary, or a mail-in primary as some have suggested, would cost mebbe $10-20m, by most estimates. That’s money better spent defeating John McCain in November.
Why not just do it online?
There must be plenty of bright young Dem programmers who could set up two ultrasecure websites, one for each state. Use the official registered Dem voter lists from each state. Only Obama’s and Clinton’s names (and “Undecided,” if you really wanted to, I suppose) would appear as candidates.
A Dem in either state would log in using his or her state-issued voter ID number, with SSN or DOB as a password. Set up the website so that it would accept only one vote from each voter ID number, and lock out any other attempts from that particular voter ID number. Make sure you have plenty of processing power to cope with demand. Widely publicize that the “e-polls” would be open for only 24 or 48 hours, with starting and ending times/dates clearly noted. Anyone without online access could use a public library, or the candidates’ campaigns could bus people to their temporary computer banks. Then just count the votes and apportion the delegates.
Would it work? What am I missing?