Some states require an excuse for absentee voting while others are moving toward no-excuse absentee balloting.
Suits have been filed in Ohio this year over absentee voting and registration drives.
In fact, the Clinton campaign has long been arguing that her buffer in California was the early absentee voting.
In addition, CNN will be monitoring the Web sites of the Secretaries of State offices to help analyze the outcome of early voting and absentee voting.
And as you know, we have a historic organization, grassroots organization already underway in many of these states, encouraging people to participate in early voting between now and Election Day, absentee voting if the law allows in the state, and also persuading undecided voters.
Early voting and absentee ballots will ensure that, by the time election day comes around, a significant amount of votes will already be in.
The other former mayor running is Xavier Suarez, who defeated Carollo in 1997 but was forced from office four months later in a voting scandal in which absentee ballots in the election were declared invalid.
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McLean also said voters no longer have to give a reason why they should need absentee ballots, which has encouraged early voting.
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But in general, it allows voters to cast ballots in person before Election Day using either voting machines or so-called absentee ballots -- without having to provide an excuse.
Jim Allen, a spokesman for the election board, said a printer would begin churning out absentee ballots Monday night without Mr. Emanuel's name because early voting for the Feb. 22 election starts on Jan. 31.
In 2008, more than 400, 000 absentee ballots were thrown out nationwide, according to data from the Election Administration and Voting Survey.
Depending on state law, early voting can either be done in-person, through the mail or through an absentee ballot.
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