“I refuse to vote absentee ballot. I go to the polls. No early voting for me.”
Absentee ballots are a problem and I wouldn’t consider doing it unless I were desperate — scheduled surgery or similar. I ran elections for a mid-sized city about 30 years ago, and saw that there’s too much opportunity for messing around with them. I don’t especially like the concept of early voting, but I do it as long as a voting machine is being used and signatures are checked two or three times before getting to the booth.
I’m long gone from the states. I wouldn’t be mixing into American politics, except that American presidents keep mixing into Israel’s, so I can’t afford to keep my distance anymore. Trump has been a Godsend, and the people opposed to him must be stopped. So I’m voting any way I can, and the only way I can is by absentee ballot.