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[Michael <michael AT metalab.unc.edu>]

TiVo is VERY good for that.  :)

The big deal about early voting is this:  depending on your circumstance, 
it may be the only way you get to vote.  It gives you two weeks (or more?) 
in which you can work out a time to vote when you don't have to be at 
work, watch the kids, walk the dog, take the car into the garage, be at a 
sudden and unexpected election day family emergency, take the kids to 
school/practice/whatever, run errands or be sick.  I knew I'd have time to 
vote on Monday, so I voted then.  I'm volunteering on election day in a 
precinct other than my own, and wasn't sure I'd be able both to vote and 
volunteer that day.  And even if I weren't volunteering, how do I know my 
car won't break down on Tuesday morning, or that I won't be laid up in the 
bed with the flu or that I won't have to spend half the day talking my cat 
down out of a tree?  It eliminates the "what if" factor of election day, 
/and/ it eliminates a huge amount of the hassle of election day for 
election day voters.  By voting on Monday I bumped everyone else in my 
precinct up one place in line on election day.  I don't care whether 
they're voting for the candidate I voted for or not - making it easier on 
them increases participation and cuts some hassle out of their lives, and 
that's good for everybody in my community.

-- 
Michael Williams                "Also, there's a monkey in a diaper with 
michael AT ibiblio.org                   a machine gun.  I don't understand 
www.ibiblio.org/michael              it at all.  But it's on your side."
www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog/                          --Mr. Saturday