Its rulers spent much of their time at the French court, in this way resembling the absentee landlords so prevalent at the time amongst the French aristocracy.
Alaska, where the population is more dispersed, is offering e-mail balloting for the first time this year for all absentee voters; this was planned for, but it still poses some security and privacy risks.
This is a consistent pattern evident throughout the absentee balloting period that started Sept. 9 in North Carolina.
Voters should use paper ballots where they are available, and if this means voting absentee, so be it.
This time, 300 absentee ballots were not counted, because they were discovered too late to be certified.Arkansas, a poor state, has long made do with archaic voting machines.
"It's time to end this era of absentee leadership in the Oval Office and send real leaders to the White House," Mr. Christie said, according to prepared remarks.
A decades-long debate has centred on whether this mass of absentee fathers is to blame for "a culture of poverty".
Mr. Barr said the Coleman campaign had shifted, over and over, on this question of absentee ballots, and had at one point "said there were no wrongly rejected absentee ballots".
Sandra Bullock, No 1 in 2014 thanks to the box-office success of Gravity, is a notable absentee this time around, as is Angelina Jolie, who was the highest-paid female actor of 2013.
The striker Ricky van Wolfswinkel, the club's record signing, is an absentee this weekend for the daunting trip to Manchester City with a troublesome foot injury, while Robert Snodgrass is also a major doubt after suffering concussion in the Capital One Cup defeat against Manchester United.
