Today is the first day in Virginia where one can vote absentee, in person, if one has a valid reason. Mine is that as of now I expect to be out of Arlington County, where I live, for the entire day on election day.
I was the 149th voter at the one place for early voting, in the County office building next to the Courthouse Metro stop. There were people lining up to come in, but of course it was lunch hour.
We are heavily Democratic as a jurisdiction, and I will not be surprised at all to see Clinton-Kaine get over 70% of the vote when the counting is complete.
One good thing — we vote by paper ballots that get scanned, so there is something to recount should that be necessary. Further, our scanners our programmed so that if you overvote it will not accept your ballot. Had that been true in Florida in I believe it was DuVal County in 2000, Al Gore would have been elected President — there were a lot of new voters who had been told to “vote on every page” because they wanted those Democratic, African-American voters, to vote down-ballot as well. Because of ten presidential lines, those candidates were spread over two pages so those who did vote on every page disqualified their ballots. There were some 15,000 ballots on which that happened.
So even if I drop dead, or have a stroke, or am otherwise incapacitated and thereby prevented from voting, I have ensured that my vote for Hillary and Tim has been recorded and will count.