What are your thoughts on early voting? (please do not reference political parties or candidates)

When I was 18 my thoughts were a lot different, but now it's the only way I do it. I also think calling it "early" is really a disservice. Voting on an election day should be called "last day voting."
I am very old-fashioned so I kinda hate early voting. If you need an absentee ballot because you travel a lot or you're posted overseas, that's one thing, but to open up voting into a 4 week rolling period destroys a lot of the social cohesion that is created when everyone goes to vote on the same day.

It also turns voting into more of a poll driven exercise than it already is and by design it means different votes are cast with different information. If you cast your vote in mid October and then your candidate has a massive stroke (or is outed as a child predator or whatever) 2 days later, that's not a good system.