1 to send your vote by post or by using the internet when you cannot be present to vote at an election:
2 someone who is absent
3 someone who is not at work or at the place where they are supposed to be:
He has to work on Election Day but instead of voting absentee, he came out for early voting.
The poll worker had a computer screen in front of them that said I had already voted absentee when I tried to vote.
If a military spouse lives outside the legal voting jurisdiction, they can vote absentee in all federal elections.
They hope to persuade more than 25 percent of their supporters to vote absentee this year.
Though he still exercised some of the influence appropriate to his status, he was an absentee lord lieutenant.
By the late seventeenth century, these absentee planters already engaged in lobbying activities.
Such workers often have high absentee and turnover rates, and their performances may be otherwise easily disrupted.
There were 44 absentees, leaving a total of 935 people who actually cast their votes.
