Early voting has grown in the past 15 years, from around 2% of the national electorate participating to about 20% in 2004. Experts predict this year that 19% to 25% of the electorate will vote early at the polls or by mail-in absentee ballots. That compares with about 14% in 2002, the most recent midterm election.
Fueling the trend toward early voting, 30 states now allow unrestricted absentee voting, with 15 , including Illinois, allowing early voting in person at county-clerk offices and polling areas.
These votes, by definition, cannot be included in media "exit polling", so don't listen to the exit polling data which you'll hear throughout election day. They don't mean squat.
If you didn't vote early (and often, as a friend of ours likes to say), go ahead and get to the polls on election day, November 7th, regardless of whether you think your vote will "make a difference" or not.
We know it will.
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