We have a phone line that's a legacy of dial-up internet, and now it's the number we give out whenever a business or nonprofit asks for our number, but it's not a "real" number and we don't answer it, the ringer is turned off, there's an answering machine in case it's something real like a bank trying to resolve a suspicious transaction. I've never been so glad for that line as I have in the past few weeks.

I don't think voting early will stop the spam. I could've done it a couple of weeks ago, I may not get around to it until election day ... I never planned to vote by mail, so the choice is trying to find the time to vote on a trip into town, vs a nice five-mile round trip walk on election day (provided the weather isn't so crummy that we drive instead ).