No, mail in voting is not the same as absentee voting. Absentee voting is where one requests/REQUESTS a ballot and it is mailed specifically to them. Mail in voting is a scheme by one party to force voting and do not care whether or not it gets to the right person or not. The ballots are mailed to supposed registered voters (dead, alive or moved out of state, doesn't matter) and then whomever receives the ballot fills it in and mails it back. There are big problems with that idea and easily hosed up. I have moved around many times in my lifetime, and recently moved even here. My ballot does not get to me so I don't get to vote. It goes to someone else and they decide to fill it in and send it along, or it gets forwarded and doesn't get to me in time.
Where do you get your information? If you go to the Board of Elections and ask for an absentee ballot or tell them that you want to vote by mail, you are given the exact same ballot.
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