That would be an absentee type ballot. Early voting is not that. Early voting is showing up in person at a polling place. In Texas that is with an ID. Same requirements as the same procedure at the polling place on election day.
From our earlier conversation, you may be confusing early voting with absentee voting. Or I may be missing something.
Not everyone gets to control their work schedule. I used to only vote on election day until a problem at work kept us too late to vote. Never again will I take that chance. I don't work a straight 9-5 never vary job. I will always vote early and encourage every conservative I know to do the same.
My right to vote is too important to leave to chance nothing going wrong to get in it's way. I make sure I get it done.
@thackney I was not clear about that earlier. "Early voting" is showing up in person and
identifying yourself as the voter. Voting in a strange location, staffed and monitored by people you don't personally know does carry a certain amount of risk that your ballot could end up in one of those car trunks the Rats always seem to "find" when an election is close. "Absentee voting," is mail-in by definition, and used to be relatively rare. Deployed soldiers, the elderly, and people who know they can't be there on election day used to have to provide a reason to go to mail-in, now it's done for anybody who doesn't want to get off their couch and anybody who wants to commit voter fraud.
What I object to is the proliferation of "mail-in" voting because it invites widespread fraud. What I mean by "proliferation" is the constant mailings I get from the County Registrar begging me to vote by mail (I just got one a few days ago). It's easy to register one's dog to vote, and then mail in a ballot, because it can all be done without producing a valid ID. I object to having my vote cancelled out by my neighbor's dog. Some states even have mail-in only laws and no in-person voting at all (I think Oregon is one such).
OTOH, I can certainly see your point about being unable to attend because of work or other circumstances unforeseen. Reasonable minds can differ on this, it's a balance between making voting possible vs stopping voter fraud.