That absentee voting thing

One comment about absentee voting that I think is appropriate in the context of a blog touching on the performing arts. Last year, there was a considerable push by local performing arts organizations to encourage performing artists to sign up for absentee ballot voting. Why? Because a) if you're unlucky, you're probably working a morning job then going ot rehearsals at night - and these both may be quite far away from your home, b0 if you're lukcy, you actually may be in residence for several weeks in some other local then your voting address.

Obviously, absentee voting can be- and is - for anyone who wants to sign up, but I thought I'd pass on some performing-arts specific reasons for it....