Morning Colors

I dreamt about the upcoming election last night.  Maybe a reminder from my subconscious to call people to see if they could be poll workers.  I'd talked w/ Chief Inspector Andy about having five people on each shift this time - in case the midterms incentivize more people to vote.  Interestingly, the newspaper's poll-of-the-week asked if people voted in-person, by mail, or didn't know.  There is no in-person early voting here - too few people and part-time clerks.   So far, 85% of the voters in this county vote in-person and only 6% by mail (there was a substantial number of respondents who 'didn't know'.).    Nationwide the numbers are quite different.  29% vote by mail and 40% vote in person on election day.    If you include early in-person voters w/ those by mail, the percentage of people voting before election day jumps to 60%).  Friend Kathy said Colorado mails ballots to each voter.  I remember going to the polling place w/ my parents as a kid and I rather like the community feeling of all of one's neighbors doing the same thing on the same day.  However, having ballots delivered to your house does sound really convenient.  

There are some new twists in the political ads I haven't seen before. (1)  An incumbent house rep is posting AI generated videos of his opponent - making it seem like she is doing/saying atrocious stuff.  He's bypassing state laws on deep fake political ads by posting them only on his social sites.   (2) I was on my computer when there was a flash of red along the bottom of the screen w/ white letters.  It looked like "Crowley Sucks" but it was gone so fast I wasn't sure I'd even seen it.    'Crowley' is the name of a gubernatorial candidate. I'd convinced myself I saw something else when it happened again.  Looked it up on-line and, yes, a group is putting out flash banners.   They last for 3-seconds and are gone.  It's so fast it's less an ad and more subliminal messaging.   (3) I was watching a show on TV when a political ad came on for someone in a county I've never heard of.   Looked her up.  Her district is 500 miles from me.  The state she's in doesn't even border my state.  Guess streaming services can get confused about what ads to show dependent on IP address, pulling from local feeds in other states, or advertising targeting. Great!  As if the local political ads weren't bad enough.