From National Geographic:

To offset large election-day crowds and encourage citizen participation, states have expanded early and absentee voting. This year 31 states are letting voters vote early without stating a reason they cannot participate on election day, and 5 states allow voting by phone.

I’m okay with making exceptions for the disabled and the like. But voting by phone is an abomination.

Update: From a reader:

You wrote: “I’m okay with making exceptions for the disabled and the like. But voting by phone is an abomination.”
I was not able to check all five states for the requirements for voting by phone — I’m sure you understand time limitations.
However, in Vermont, for example, the “voting by phone” option is done by going to the polling place. See http://vermont-elections.org/elections1/VoteByPhone.html
The voter goes to his or her polling place, signs in and indicates that he or she wishes to use the vote-by-phone system. A poll worker uses a designated telephone to call the system, enters the poll worker and ballot access IDs to bring up the appropriate ballot, then gives the phone to the voter and leaves the voting booth.
The system reads the ballot to the voter and, after the voter makes ballot selections using the telephone key pad, the system prints out a paper ballot at the office of the Secretary of State. The paper ballot is automatically scanned and can be played back to the voter for verification upon request by the voter. The voter may decide to cast it or discard it and revote.
I’m not sure how that’s an “abomination.”

Me: If that’s what voting by phone means, it isn’t an abomination. But the National Geographic reporter did an abominable job not making that clear to the reader.