Well, thanks for the helpful information offered in this thread, but so far 
I'm doubtful it will avail much. Following the appropriate links I was able 
to find lots of detail about the procedure for Texas. First it said I wasn't 
qualified to use this system. Then it said they had extended it and it 
looked like I did qualify. However, in the next section it looked like I was 
between the cracks again, but in the section after that... I'll take another 
swing at figuring it out again later, but so far I sure couldn't figure out 
what I was supposed to do. Closest I got was the same address I'd been 
writing to already. The only explanation I can figure for instructions like 
those is that they don't want too many folks to figure 'em out.

Years ago this absentee voting stuff used to be relatively painless and 
easy.

At this point Occam's Razor seems to be the "no vote" list.

Anyway, it probably doesn't matter that much. My representative was Lloyd 
Doggett, quite a tough old moderate (which means he's called a screaming 
liberal in Texas). It would have been an honor to vote for him again, but 
his district was thoroughly gerrymandered... Fortunately for the big 
picture, the fanatical Busheviks have concentrated themselves in certain 
states (like Texas), so I'm increasingly optimistic Kerry will be able to 
take the swing states and the election. (Assuming they actually count the 
votes this time.)

Jya, mata.