This is why I will never vote absentee ballot.
I will never do it willingly either, and in my (ultraliberal) North Seattle precinct I can still go to a polling location, fill out a ballot and feed it into a big black machine by myself. But I am not so sure that this method is terribly safe either. I'm assuming that the big machine is connected to a central server of some kind, which can be hacked as can anything that's plugged into a telephone line. When you have a State that's so utterly infested with Democrats, I don't know if there is a true, universal solution. It's sort of like demanding that all the inmates in a prison become nice people....it's not gonna happen.
Good thing you don't live in my county in Washington State. It is all absentee. Of course, as you say, you then wouldn't vote. :)