Here's a map of early voting.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

Green is postal only. Blue is in person and postal. Purple is in person only. Gray is no early voting.

Interestingly enough, I lived in Virginia in 1980, and was going to be out of town, actually out of the country on election day that year. I was able to go to (somewhere, the county courthouse maybe) and cast an early ballot at least two weeks before election day that year. It was wonderful.

It was about twenty years before I cast my next early ballot, and I haven't voted on election day since.

As an aside, states with the most "liberal" voting policies, including same day registration, tend to not only have high voter turn out, but no suspicion of voter fraud. Of course, "voter fraud" is largely a figment of Republican imaginations. Similarly, I believe that states with relatively long legislative sessions, tend to have low fraud and high citizen confidence in their state legislatures. Those with very restrictive legislative sessions, well, are quite different.

[boomer55]

1. This next cycle we need to force a national vote by mail law

[csziggy]

13. That would take a constitutional amendment

Frankly having each state handling voting in their own way and each county in those states be administered by different people is a very effective way of preventing massive voting fraud. For the conspiracy minded, how could any one entity influence every single election official in every county/parish across fifty states? That would be thousands of mostly elected officials who would have to be influenced individually against their own interests in staying in office.

[AmericanActivist]

2. Get out the early vote :) nm

[Blue_Adept]

3. MA has early voting this year, begins next week

Makes me question the rest of the map if it's actually up to date.

[Are_grits_groceries]

4. You can vote early in SC.

I voted yesterday. I think it's "absentee ballot." You tell them something that is close to a listed reason and they let you vote.
It's not technically early voting and you have to go to the election office.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. Thank you for that information.

I got that map off the internet, and so I have no idea why it's wrong about SC.

[Are_grits_groceries]

17. Well, it's not technically early voting so the map is probably right. nt

[Coolest Ranger]

5. In NC

early voting starts on the 20th. I'm trying to make arrangements so I can get to the polls early. I'm ready to vote and vote now

[awake]

6. As for Colorado it is not just by mail

I voted via their web site weeks ago (from Canada as a "overseas" voter) I do not know if other early voters get to use the same site, it was the easiest way that I have voted in over forty years of voting.

[Raster]

7. Arizona here... Received my early ballot last night...

...already made the *Easy* choices, now working through the "flyovers"

[Major Nikon]

8. Texas has in person and postal early voting

Postal early voting is restricted to those who won't be in their county of residence during the early voting period.

[LWolf]

9. Is there a link?

Green is postal only. I haven't received my ballot yet, but I expect it any day now. I can hold on to it until the last minute, or vote and send it in right away; I don't think that's really "early," since we're all getting our ballots at about the same time. I DO love voting by mail: no lines, no fuss, and some extra time.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. I took it from the Wikipedia article on early voting.

Here's a link to a state by state chart of early voting:

https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/

[SecularMotion]

11. Update

Early voting in Massachusetts starts this year.

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/EarlyVotingWeb/EarlyVotingSearch.aspx

[Wounded Bear]

12. Don't most states have absentee ballots?

So if you know you'll be out of state on election day, you can get a mail in ballot and use it?

I suspect a lot of people lie about that and vote "absentee" no matter whether they will be out of state or not.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

16. I suspect most states do have an absentee ballot provision.

I personally haven't made use of that.

[Warren DeMontague]

19. Mine's already in the mail.

[Rhythm]

21. 'Early Voting' starts here in WV on this Thursday (the 26th)

In our particular county (Monongalia, on the WV/PA border), there are 5 locations set up for voters -- the majority of which are situated along established public transit routes. This is important, because due to a lot of polling-place changes over the last couple of years, many of the new locations are inaccessible without either a private vehicle, an expensive taxi ride, or other arrangements.

WV is destined to go for tRump, unfortunately, and the USHoR seats will stay in Republican hands most likely as well; however, with any luck, the state legislature can be retaken by the Democrats, and the Governor's mansion will be occupied by a Dem as well.