Voting Online vs. Voting Offline

Petition sites like what was seen at the White House site are much faster and efficient than trying to gather people together on Election Day to vote on something that really may not make much of an impact. One thing that I saw which is stupid to vote on is the secession of states from the Union. The chances of that happening are non existent as the fact is that we worked too hard to unite all 50 states into one country and foolish individuals want to go back to those times. That to me is ludicrous in the most sensible context that you could put it.