Mail-in ballot suggested as possible Florida-Michigan fixThe governors from both states have said it would be "intolerable" to not count their residents' votes, but Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, argues that the states knew the rules before they scheduled their contests.
The problem, Dean said, is figuring out who would foot the bill.
"The two things, I think, that are established is [Florida] isn't going to pay for it because their governor, who is a [John] McCain supporter, has said they won't pay for it," he said, speaking of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist.
The DNC is not going to pay for it, he said, because it must devote its resources to running against presumptive GOP nominee McCain.
But Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida, said now is not the time for a mail-in ballot.
"We have never conducted a mail-in ballot in Florida, and in an election that is this important, an experiment like that is -- now is not the time to test that," she said on "Fox News Sunday."
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, has also said he doesn't think there is a fair way to redo the vote in his state.
"There's no way to have a primary. That's state law. That can't be changed, and that can't be paid for," he said on ABC's "Face the Nation."
Levin said a mail-in caucus is one possibility, but "there's some real problems with that, too."
"Not just cost, but the security issue. How do you make sure that hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million or more ballots, can be properly counted and that duplicate ballots can be avoided," he said.
Levin added that he thinks it would be "outrageous" to not seat the delegates in Florida and Michigan.
