Absentee voting (n.) is voting in your pajamas with the paperwork of a mortgage.
Absentee voting (n.) requires a signature that has to match one you dashed off years ago.
Absentee voting (n.) is democracy that shows up in an envelope.
Absentee voting (n.) is the same vote, counted last and doubted first.
Early voting (n.) is where campaigns learn the ending while still filming the movie.
Early voting (n.) is democracy with a reservation instead of a queue.
Early voting (n.) is election day stretched thin enough to fit around a job.
Early voting (n.) is casting your vote before the October surprise can reach you.
A Referendum (n.) turns a narrow half of a country into the will of the people and the other half into weather.
A Referendum (n.) settles nothing; it only tells the losing half how many they are.
A Referendum (n.) is decided by whoever got to write the question.
A Referendum (n.) asks a question written by the side that expects to win it.