I was an absentee voter once in Va. In 2000 I had to be out of town on election day and went to the courthouse, filled out my ballot and handed it to the nice lady behind the counter. Now this was 2000 when hanging chads became known to the world so I was hoping that my effort to vote would be helpful. After the dust settled, I found that Bush had won Va by such a large margin that the absentees wouldn’t have changed anything so they didn’t even bother to count them. As far as I know, there is no early voting in Va except by absentee ballot where you have to swear that you will not be able to vote in your precinct on election day. If that has changed, no one told me.
That’s my understanding as well. My mother in law may have “lied” that she needed to vote absentee and called it early voting although this article calls it early voting? On a positive note, just got word that my nephew who is black and also attends Princeton in his second year and who we were certain would succumb to the liberal indoctrination up there as a poli sci and Econ major just sent off his absentee ballot to Virginia for Trump. Go Trump!