Well, it’s an absentee ballot for a reason. I’m a thousand miles away for work and won’t be able to make it in person.
Ok. My own experience when showing up to vote in NYC in the 90s when it turned out my (Republican) registration form was missing from those large books so loved by the elderly Democrat women who presided over them. I filled out my absentee while stepping over of at least twenty of them ground into the dirt beneath my feet. It taught me a lesson.
But you, of course, must do what is best for you.