How is it absentee if you're going in person? I live in Ohio and the period for this started yesterday. I plan to vote in person (this election is my first; I was too young in 2016), but if it's "absentee" does that mean right now they're only accepting people who requested absentee ballots and allowing them to turn them in early in-person?
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I think it means different things in different states. But generally, it means voting in person at some central location (e.g. county courthouse) for some period of time prior to election day. I think all the states that are doing this are usingsome kind of paper ballots (whether mass-mailed, mailed on request, or available at the early voting location), not voting machines, even if the voting at regular polling places on election day is with voting machines.
People are afraid to place them in the mail so they pick them up a the town hall and then return them in person to the town hall.
It’s an early in person vote because you state you cant be present at your local polling place on election day
At least in some states, there is no requirement to state you can't be present at your polling place on election day.