A voter is eligible to vote absentee in an election for any of the following reasons:
The voter will be absent from his or her regular polling place on Election Day.
The voter is incapacitated or confined due to illness or physical disability. Additionally, an individual who is caring for an incapacitated person may vote absentee.
The voter is unable to visit the polls for religious reasons.
The voter is employed by an election authority.
The voter incarcerated but has retained voting qualifications.
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.
Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004 (Fortieth President of the United States)