"Instead, we’ll provide perspective, in a FAQ fashion, about whether early voting is good for democracy and good for the pocketbook. What is pre-Election Day voting, anyway?
This is a catch-all phrase that includes three main categories of voting before Election Day:
1) Early Voting—Any voter can cast his or her ballot a few days or weeks before Election Day at a limited set of polling sites set up in places such as libraries, courthouses and even grocery stores.
2) Absentee Voting-- A voter must request an absentee ballot; after it is voted, it is returned by mail or at a designated drop-off point. All states offer absentee voting; some states allow no-excuse absentee voting, whereby any voter may choose to vote by absentee ballot, while other states require absentee voters to comply with a list of eligibility criteria. Military and overseas voters in all states vote by absentee ballot."
Pre-Election Day Voting: Just the FAQs, Ma’am
The Canvass: Volume XVIII--March 2011:
