Why clerks are encouraging absentee ballots for November's election

Why clerks are encouraging absentee ballots for November's election | MLive.com
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Officially, your local government clerk doesn't want you to lie.
But if taking out an absentee voter ballot gets you to participate in this fall's presidential election – without compounding the crowds expected at polling places – they're not going to ask if you're telling the truth about why you want one.
...Don't want to vote in a church building because it violates your religious faith, or lack of faith?
Get an absentee ballot.
Can't come to the polls because you'll be busy praying that day?
Get an absentee ballot.
"If people even think they're going to be absent from their community, we do encourage people to (apply for an absentee ballot)," said Justin Roebuck, Ottawa County clerk. "(The legal criteria) doesn't say 'I will be absent.' It says 'I expect to be absent.'
We'd rather that person vote than forget once they're gone."
...A federal judge last month granted a request for a preliminary injunction to block enforcement of the straight-ticket voting ban, and Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette now is seeking a stay of that injunction.