They Even Included a Stylus

I got my absentee ballot in the mail today. It's one of the infamous punch card ballots that caused so much trouble in Florida. The instructions make very sure to tell you to TURN OVER THE BALLOT when you're finished voting and REMOVE ANY HANGING CHADS. What I want to know is, what if I make a mistake? If I were voting in person and accidentally punched the wrong box (and they are tiny little boxes placed close together), I could leave the little curtained booth, go up to the nearest poll worker, and request another ballot. My mistake ballot would be immediately ripped up, then a new ballot would be removed from the box and given to me. This is obviously Not An Option in the whole absentee ballot procedure.

The cool thing about voting absentee is that I can use the internet to look up all the candidates running in the little local races. I've always hated when you would get to the candidates running for County Auditor or Town Coroner or whatever and not really know anything about either candidate off the top of your head. I believe in being an informed voter as far as possible, but some years there are so many races and issues that you just can't remember each person running. This will be by far my most informed vote EVER.