and invited people to do the same.

October 25 (early voting begins October 22 in Illinois).

and that's what the republicans HATE because they don't know which ones
to argue against being counted.

I guess you could, but that would be making a lot of assumptions.

All of that information is available in detail.

Indeed the GOP always do better with absentee ballots while dems do better with early in person voting, so the fact that we cut their edge there is encouraging.

voted absentee the last two elections. Expats get no love.

In spite of the fact that I love voting on Election Day, I've got my absentee ballot this year. Once I saw how many long ballot questions the Tea Party Fl legislature got on our ballot this year, I knew it was, in part, yet another attempt to create long lines to suppress the vote.

So I, my SO and my MIL, all democrats, took ourselves out of the fray and got our mail ballots. We'll return 'em directly to the elections office to avoid any lost ballots. Not as fun as voting on election day, but better for the process.