my absent absentee ballot

I forgot to send in an absentee ballot - which makes me feel kind of crappy. But did you know that they only count the absentee ballots if it's a really tight race? And since I expect the democrats to take the republicans to the cleaners this time around, my ballot wouldn't have been counted anyway. If you ask me, this whole "not counting absentee ballots in a close race" thing is probably just another republican gimmick when you take into consideration the fact that people who chose to live abroad probably lean more to the left than they do to the right.