Looks like Microsoft is now going to roll out a new feature called “intelligent media search” for Windows that grabs all of the text from your files and indexes it.
“To help you search better,” of course … not for the purpose of further spying on you with more precision. Right?
Arizona
In-person early voting begins on Oct. 9, 27 days before Election Day. It lasts until Nov. 1 at 7 p.m.
An emergency early voting period begins on Nov. 1 and lasts through 5 p.m. on Nov. 4, the day before Election Day, for voters who are “experiencing an emergency between 5 p.m. on the Friday preceding the election and 5 p.m. on the Monday preceding the election.”
Stacks of ballot drop box signs sit in storage at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center ahead of the 2024 Arizona primary and general elections in Phoenix on June 3, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
In addition, Arizona counties begin sending out absentee ballots on Oct. 9 to voters who make a one-time request or who are on the state’s Active Early Voting List.
Oct. 9 is also when voters can start mailing those ballots back or placing them in drop boxes.
The deadline for ballots to reach officials is 7 p.m. on Election Day.
The Arizona Elections Procedure Manual charges local government units that have drop boxes with “develop[ing] and implement[ing] procedures to ensure [their] security.”
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