A pox on early voting. How that concept ever met or exceeded efforts to vilify it as the danger to honest voting I will never know. Six weeks in this state. You could be a convicted felon incarcerated before anyone voting for you had a clue. Well maybe that’s a stretch, but you get the idea.
The flip side of that statement is that early voting tends to tends to blunt the impact of last minute "fake but accurate" revelations. You now must have something which rallies those who do not normally vote to the polls (see Mississippi).