In Boston our two big sci-fi conventions are Arisia and Boskone. Arisia occurs in January and authors use the convention to promote their works for nomination for Hugos. By the time Boskone comes around in Februrary the window has closed for potential nominators who are not already a member of Worldcon. By the time New York's Lunacon occurs in late March the window has closed for all nominations. That seems wrong to me.

Hugo nominations must be tied to Worldcon's schedule. That's it. There are whole regions that don't even have spring conventions, much less big spring conventions. Maybe Lunacon should move earlier if it wants to have more influence on the nominating process.

I thought not.

And these people don't have internet capabilties?

There are fans, even wealthy fans, who don't have access to or just plain don't use the internet. Internet access and use doesn't directly correlate with financial security. Supporting a paper ballot is cheap and easy when only a few eligible voters take advantage of it.